Grant Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
840 ft 255 m810 ft 250 m800 ft 245 m780 ft 235 m750 ft 230 m740 ft 225 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Grant Township sits at about 760 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
760 ft 230 m
most residents: 740–790 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the north side
Highest
840 ft 255 m
near the middle
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside township boundaries
Grant Township spans about 100 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 760 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 840 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (C81) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.4 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 788 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.0 mi west to east through the middle of Grant Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lake County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 28,557 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.6 sq mi + 5.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,620 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3711° N, 88.1573° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Fox River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Campbell (C81) 788 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Round Lake Park790 ft
- Round Lake Heights790 ft
- Round Lake790 ft
- Volo780 ft
- Round Lake Beach780 ft
- Pistakee Highlands770 ft
- Grant Township760 ft
- Long Lake760 ft
- Lakemoor760 ft
- Fox Lake Hills750 ft
- Fox Lake750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois464th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Lake County30th highest of 72
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gander Mountain957 ft
- Hill Fifteen910 ft
- Camelback Kame870 ft
- Bald Knob, McHenry County790 ft
- Leahy Hill770 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census township boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.