Orion Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
700 ft 215 m640 ft 195 m610 ft 185 m540 ft 165 m480 ft 145 m450 ft 140 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
Orion Township sits at about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
610 ft 185 m
most residents: 560–630 ft
Lowest
450 ft 140 m
on the southeast side
Highest
700 ft 215 m
on the northwest side
Average
600 ft 185 m
all land inside township boundaries
Orion Township spans about 250 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 | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 700 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 450 ft140 m |
| Airport (PIA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.8 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 661 ft201 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Orion Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Fulton County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,117 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.4 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 31 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5647° N, 89.9388° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- General Downing - Peoria International (PIA) 661 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Norris730 ft
- Canton Township650 ft
- Canton650 ft
- Dunfermline630 ft
- Buckheart Township630 ft
- St. David630 ft
- Orion Township610 ft
- Glasford610 ft
- Timber Township610 ft
- Banner Township, Fulton County550 ft
- Banner480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,878th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Fulton County32nd highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tampico Mounds579 ft
- The Mound, Tazewell County530 ft
- Hickory Grove Hill510 ft
- Little Mound490 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.