Morris Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m550 ft 165 m520 ft 160 m500 ft 150 m480 ft 145 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
Morris Township sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 510–530 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the northeast side
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on the northeast side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside township boundaries
Morris Township spans about 110 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 480 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Morris Township | 520 ft155 m |
| Airport (C09) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi north of the township boundaries | 585 ft178 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Grundy County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 7,310 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.5 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,100 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3573° N, 88.4212° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Morris Municipal/James R Washburn Field (C09) 585 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Aux Sable Township610 ft
- Norman Township600 ft
- Mazon590 ft
- Mazon Township590 ft
- Carbon Hill560 ft
- Saratoga Township550 ft
- Goose Lake Township540 ft
- Erienna Township530 ft
- Morris530 ft
- Wauponsee Township530 ft
- Morris Township520 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,363rd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Grundy Countylowest of 29
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.