Moores Prairie Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m550 ft 165 m530 ft 160 m490 ft 150 m450 ft 135 m430 ft 130 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
Moores Prairie Township sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 460–520 ft
Lowest
430 ft 130 m
on the northeast side
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on Lowry Hill
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside township boundaries
Moores Prairie Township spans about 160 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Lowry Hill | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 430 ft130 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Moores Prairie Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jefferson County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 350 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.4 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 9.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.1639° N, 88.7490° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Middle Fork Big Muddy River → Big Muddy River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Opdyke510 ft
- Dahlgren500 ft
- Macedonia500 ft
- Dahlgren Township500 ft
- Pendleton Township490 ft
- Moores Prairie Township490 ft
- Ewing470 ft
- Belle Rive470 ft
- Northern Township460 ft
- Ewing Township450 ft
- Spring Garden Township420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,475th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Jefferson County15th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lowry Hill590 ft
- Grammer Hill570 ft
- Radio Hill560 ft
- Webbs Hill500 ft
- Browning Hill450 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.