Payson Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
830 ft 255 m740 ft 225 m700 ft 215 m610 ft 185 m520 ft 160 m480 ft 145 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
Payson Township sits at about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
720 ft 220 m
most residents: 660–750 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the south side
Highest
830 ft 255 m
on the east side
Average
680 ft 205 m
all land inside township boundaries
Payson Township spans about 350 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 | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 830 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 480 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Payson Township | 760 ft230 m |
| Airport (UIN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.7 mi north of the township boundaries | 769 ft234 m |
| Average of all land | 680 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Adams County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,703 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.3 sq mi
- Density
- 45 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8170° N, 91.2424° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Quincy Regional-Baldwin Field (UIN) 769 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Payson730 ft
- Payson Township720 ft
- Adams720 ft
- Richfield Township710 ft
- Burton Township, Adams County700 ft
- Richfield690 ft
- Plainville690 ft
- Burton650 ft
- Fall Creek Township630 ft
- Fall Creek480 ft
- Levee Township460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois688th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Adams County17th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Mound, Adams County850 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.