Lafayette Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
780 ft 240 m740 ft 225 m720 ft 220 m680 ft 205 m640 ft 195 m620 ft 190 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
Lafayette Township sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 690–720 ft
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
on the east side
Highest
780 ft 240 m
on the south side
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside township boundaries
Lafayette Township spans about 160 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 780 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 620 ft190 m |
| Airport (MTO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 722 ft220 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Lafayette Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Coles County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 4,651 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 129 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4714° N, 88.3304° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Embarras River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Coles County Memorial (MTO) 722 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lerna750 ft
- Mattoon Township720 ft
- Mattoon720 ft
- Lafayette Township710 ft
- Pleasant Grove Township710 ft
- Janesville690 ft
- Paradise Township690 ft
- Charleston680 ft
- Charleston Township680 ft
- North Okaw Township650 ft
- Trilla650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois797th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Coles County4th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buck Knoll610 ft
- Graveyard Hill610 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 620 ft at 39.4690° N, 88.2504° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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. All public domain.