North Palmyra Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
700 ft 215 m670 ft 205 m660 ft 200 m630 ft 190 m600 ft 185 m590 ft 180 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
North Palmyra Township sits at about 680 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
680 ft 205 m
most residents: 660–690 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the southeast side
Highest
700 ft 215 m
on the north side
Average
680 ft 205 m
all land inside township boundaries
North Palmyra 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 | 680 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 700 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 590 ft180 m |
| Average of all land | 680 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of North Palmyra Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Macoupin County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 799 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 22 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4666° N, 89.9838° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Macoupin Creek → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Modesto680 ft
- North Palmyra Township680 ft
- Palmyra670 ft
- Talkington Township670 ft
- South Palmyra Township660 ft
- Scottville650 ft
- North Otter Township650 ft
- Scottville Township650 ft
- South Otter Township650 ft
- Barr Township610 ft
- Hettick600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,103rd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Macoupin County3rd highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brushy Mound700 ft
- Coops Mound690 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.