Melrose Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
740 ft 225 m670 ft 205 m630 ft 195 m560 ft 170 m490 ft 150 m460 ft 140 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
Melrose Township sits at about 630 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
630 ft 190 m
most residents: 540–690 ft
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the southwest side
Highest
740 ft 225 m
on the northeast side
Average
590 ft 180 m
all land inside township boundaries
Melrose Township spans about 280 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 | 630 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 740 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 460 ft140 m |
| Airport (UIN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.8 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 769 ft234 m |
| Average of all land | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.5 mi west to east through the middle of Melrose Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Adams County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 5,500 2024 est.
- Land area
- 44.7 sq mi + 2.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 123 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8932° N, 91.3446° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Quincy Regional-Baldwin Field (UIN) 769 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Payson730 ft
- Payson Township720 ft
- Adams720 ft
- Burton Township, Adams County700 ft
- Ellington Township690 ft
- Burton650 ft
- Fall Creek Township630 ft
- Melrose Township630 ft
- Quincy620 ft
- Riverside Township, Adams County590 ft
- Fall Creek480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,654th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Adams County40th highest of 47
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, 430 ft at 39.9215° N, 91.2824° 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.