Owen Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
910 ft 280 m860 ft 260 m830 ft 255 m780 ft 240 m730 ft 220 m700 ft 215 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
Owen Township sits at about 770 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
770 ft 235 m
most residents: 730–840 ft
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
on the southeast side
Highest
910 ft 280 m
on the north side
Average
810 ft 245 m
all land inside township boundaries
Owen Township spans about 210 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 | 770 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 910 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 700 ft215 m |
| Airport (RFD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.9 mi south of the township boundaries | 742 ft226 m |
| Average of all land | 810 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Owen Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 3,590 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.3 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 102 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3570° N, 89.0960° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Rock River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Chicago/Rockford International (RFD) 742 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Loves Park820 ft
- Rockford790 ft
- Rockford Township780 ft
- Owen Township770 ft
- Roscoe Township770 ft
- Rockton Township770 ft
- Rockton760 ft
- Roscoe750 ft
- Harlem Township750 ft
- Harrison Township740 ft
- Machesney Park730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois403rd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Winnebago County19th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lookout Point830 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.