New Salem Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
880 ft 270 m810 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m690 ft 210 m620 ft 190 m580 ft 175 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
New Salem Township sits at about 800 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
800 ft 240 m
most residents: 750–850 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the northeast side
Highest
880 ft 270 m
on the west side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside township boundaries
New Salem Township spans about 300 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 | 800 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 880 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 580 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for New Salem Township | 780 ft240 m |
| Airport (PPQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.1 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 710 ft216 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Pike County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 483 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.2 sq mi
- Density
- 13 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7075° N, 90.8476° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Bay Creek → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Pittsfield Penstone Municipal (PPQ) 710 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Baylis850 ft
- New Salem Township800 ft
- New Salem790 ft
- Hadley Township740 ft
- Pittsfield Township730 ft
- Pittsfield730 ft
- Fairmount Township710 ft
- Newburg Township690 ft
- Griggsville680 ft
- Griggsville Township680 ft
- Perry Township590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois290th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Pike County2nd highest of 42
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Mound, Adams County850 ft
- Calvert Hill740 ft
- Pilot Knob, Pike County740 ft
- Browns Mound, Scott County630 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.