Patterson Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
690 ft 210 m620 ft 190 m590 ft 180 m520 ft 160 m450 ft 135 m420 ft 125 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
Patterson 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: 450–670 ft
Lowest
420 ft 125 m
on the southwest side
Highest
690 ft 210 m
on the northwest side
Average
530 ft 160 m
all land inside township boundaries
Patterson Township spans about 270 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 420 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Patterson Township | 670 ft205 m |
| Average of all land | 530 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Greene County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 387 2024 est.
- Land area
- 47.1 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 8.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4806° N, 90.4829° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Village of Wilmington670 ft
- Roodhouse660 ft
- Roodhouse Township660 ft
- Montezuma Township650 ft
- Alsey630 ft
- Patterson Township610 ft
- Glasgow590 ft
- White Hall Township570 ft
- White Hall570 ft
- Walkerville Township560 ft
- Hillview500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,910th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Greene County5th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Calvert Hill740 ft
- Pilot Knob, Pike County740 ft
- Witachek Mound720 ft
- Allison Mound690 ft
- Browns Mound, Scott County630 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, 420 ft at 39.4435° N, 90.6015° 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.