Old Ripley Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
610 ft 185 m570 ft 175 m550 ft 170 m510 ft 155 m470 ft 145 m450 ft 140 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
Old Ripley Township sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 510–560 ft
Lowest
450 ft 140 m
on the southeast side
Highest
610 ft 185 m
on the south side
Average
530 ft 160 m
all land inside township boundaries
Old Ripley 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 610 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 450 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Old Ripley Township | 560 ft170 m |
| Average of all land | 530 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Bond County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 814 2024 est.
- Land area
- 43.6 sq mi
- Density
- 19 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8962° N, 89.5701° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Shoal Creek → Kaskaskia River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Douglas620 ft
- New Douglas Township620 ft
- Sorento580 ft
- Shoal Creek Township580 ft
- Old Ripley560 ft
- Leef Township550 ft
- Pocahontas540 ft
- Old Ripley Township540 ft
- Grantfork530 ft
- Burgess Township530 ft
- Pierron520 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,292nd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Bond County12th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Robbs Mound670 ft
- Neudeckers Mountain560 ft
- Browns Hill550 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, 450 ft at 38.8296° N, 89.5015° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.