Mineral Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m830 ft 255 m800 ft 240 m720 ft 220 m650 ft 200 m610 ft 185 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
Mineral Township sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 630–760 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the northwest side
Highest
900 ft 275 m
on the south side
Average
680 ft 210 m
all land inside township boundaries
Mineral Township spans about 290 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 900 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mineral Township | 640 ft195 m |
| Average of all land | 680 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Bureau County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 436 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 12 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3825° N, 89.8365° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Neponset820 ft
- Neponset Township820 ft
- Buda780 ft
- Concord Township700 ft
- Sheffield700 ft
- Mineral Township640 ft
- Mineral640 ft
- Annawan Township630 ft
- Annawan630 ft
- Gold Township620 ft
- Alba Township620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,513th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Bureau County33rd highest of 48
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gravel Hill830 ft
- Indian Hill, Bureau County810 ft
- Hickory Point720 ft
- Indian Hill, Henry County670 ft
- Owls Head660 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, 610 ft at 41.4038° N, 89.8171° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.