Makanda Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
740 ft 225 m660 ft 200 m610 ft 185 m520 ft 160 m430 ft 130 m390 ft 120 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
Makanda Township sits at about 550 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 170 m
most residents: 470–640 ft
Lowest
390 ft 120 m
on the north side
Highest
740 ft 225 m
on the southwest side
Average
550 ft 165 m
all land inside township boundaries
Makanda Township spans about 350 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 | 550 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 740 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 390 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Makanda Township | 450 ft140 m |
| Airport (MWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.0 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 472 ft144 m |
| Average of all land | 550 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jackson County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 4,044 2024 est.
- Land area
- 37.1 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 109 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.6176° N, 89.2090° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois (MWA) 472 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Alto Pass710 ft
- Makanda640 ft
- Anna630 ft
- Cobden610 ft
- Pomona Township550 ft
- Makanda Township550 ft
- Jonesboro530 ft
- Crainville460 ft
- Carterville440 ft
- Carbondale420 ft
- Carbondale Township420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,226th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Jackson County6th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Knob, Union County1,031 ft
- Tiptop Knob890 ft
- Milligan Hill760 ft
- McKinney Hill520 ft
- Mount Carbon500 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, 390 ft at 37.6860° N, 89.1910° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.