Palos Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
790 ft 240 m740 ft 225 m710 ft 215 m660 ft 200 m600 ft 185 m580 ft 175 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
Palos Township sits at about 630 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
630 ft 195 m
most residents: 590–710 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the northwest side
Highest
790 ft 240 m
on the southwest side
Average
660 ft 200 m
all land inside township boundaries
Palos 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 | 630 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 790 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 580 ft175 m |
| Airport (MDW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 620 ft189 m |
| Average of all land | 660 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Palos Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Cook County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 55,406 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.7 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,642 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.6938° N, 87.8266° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Chicago Midway International (MDW) 620 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Palos Park680 ft
- Hickory Hills650 ft
- Palos Township630 ft
- Palos Heights630 ft
- Justice620 ft
- Burbank620 ft
- Worth Township610 ft
- Willow Springs610 ft
- Worth610 ft
- Palos Hills600 ft
- Chicago Ridge600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,614th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Cook County69th highest of 144
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blanchard Hill780 ft
- Players Hill620 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 and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.