Media Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
770 ft 235 m730 ft 220 m700 ft 215 m660 ft 200 m610 ft 185 m590 ft 180 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
Media Township sits at about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
690 ft 210 m
most residents: 650–730 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the west side
Highest
770 ft 235 m
on the southeast side
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside township boundaries
Media Township spans about 180 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 770 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Media Township | 710 ft215 m |
| Airport (BRL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi west of the township boundaries | 699 ft213 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Henderson County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 340 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.4 sq mi
- Density
- 9.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7750° N, 90.8321° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Southeast Iowa Regional (BRL) 699 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Raritan Township760 ft
- Raritan760 ft
- Kirkwood750 ft
- Tompkins Township750 ft
- Ellison Township730 ft
- Media700 ft
- Media Township690 ft
- Biggsville Township680 ft
- Stronghurst680 ft
- Biggsville670 ft
- Stronghurst Township670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois939th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Henderson County6th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gittings Mound760 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. All public domain.