Orel Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
480 ft 145 m450 ft 140 m440 ft 135 m410 ft 125 m380 ft 115 m370 ft 110 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
Orel Township sits at about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
430 ft 130 m
most residents: 410–450 ft
Lowest
370 ft 110 m
on the southeast side
Highest
480 ft 145 m
on the south side
Average
400 ft 125 m
all land inside township boundaries
Orel 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 | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 480 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 370 ft110 m |
| Average of all land | 400 ft125 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.1 mi west to east through the middle of Orel Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Wayne County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,340 2024 est.
- Land area
- 47.2 sq mi
- Density
- 28 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3405° N, 88.5878° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Skillet Fork → Little Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bluford520 ft
- Belle Prairie City450 ft
- Four Mile Township450 ft
- Keenes450 ft
- Berry Township450 ft
- Hickory Hill Township440 ft
- Wayne City430 ft
- Orel Township430 ft
- Crouch Township420 ft
- Sims420 ft
- Arrington Township420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,713th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Wayne County24th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lowry Hill590 ft
- Radio Hill560 ft
- Little Potatoe Hill470 ft
- Potatoe Hill470 ft
- Linder Hill430 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, 370 ft at 38.3099° N, 88.4826° 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.