Money Creek Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
800 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m750 ft 230 m720 ft 220 m690 ft 210 m680 ft 205 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
Money Creek Township sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
740 ft 225 m
most residents: 720–770 ft
Lowest
680 ft 205 m
on the northwest side
Highest
800 ft 245 m
on the south side
Average
750 ft 230 m
all land inside township boundaries
Money Creek Township spans about 120 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 800 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 680 ft205 m |
| Airport (BMI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.8 mi south of the township boundaries | 871 ft265 m |
| Average of all land | 750 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.3 mi south to north through the middle of Money Creek Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in McLean County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,055 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.8 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 27 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6323° N, 88.8817° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mackinaw River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Central Il Regional/Bloomington-Normal (BMI) 871 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Towanda Township810 ft
- Normal800 ft
- Towanda780 ft
- Hudson770 ft
- Hudson Township770 ft
- Gridley750 ft
- Gridley Township750 ft
- Money Creek Township740 ft
- Lexington740 ft
- Lexington Township740 ft
- Kappa730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois556th highest of 2,872
- Towns in McLean County43rd highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Mound, McLean County850 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, 670 ft at 40.6651° N, 88.8943° 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.