Hoosier Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
490 ft 150 m480 ft 145 m470 ft 145 m450 ft 135 m430 ft 130 m420 ft 130 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Hoosier Township sits at about 470 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
470 ft 140 m
most residents: 440–480 ft
Lowest
420 ft 130 m
on the southeast side
Highest
490 ft 150 m
on the northwest side
Average
460 ft 140 m
all land inside township boundaries
Hoosier Township spans about 70 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 | 470 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 490 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 420 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hoosier Township | 470 ft145 m |
| Average of all land | 460 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Clay County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 307 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.6 sq mi
- Density
- 8.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8037° N, 88.4551° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Little Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Iola520 ft
- Bible Grove Township510 ft
- South Muddy Township510 ft
- Blair Township510 ft
- Flora490 ft
- Harter Township490 ft
- Louisville Township470 ft
- Louisville470 ft
- Hoosier Township470 ft
- Pixley Township450 ft
- Sailor Springs450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,561st highest of 2,872
- Towns in Clay County13th highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Onion Hill560 ft
- Turkey Point500 ft
- Indian Point490 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.