Pekin Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
650 ft 200 m600 ft 185 m570 ft 175 m520 ft 160 m470 ft 145 m440 ft 135 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
Pekin Township sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 470–600 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the southwest side
Highest
650 ft 200 m
on the north side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside township boundaries
Pekin 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 650 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pekin Township | 510 ft155 m |
| Airport (PIA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.0 mi north of the township boundaries | 661 ft201 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 27,085 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.3 sq mi + 1.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,201 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5675° N, 89.6407° 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
- Groveland Township680 ft
- Elm Grove Township650 ft
- Marquette Heights630 ft
- Hollis Township590 ft
- Mapleton590 ft
- Bartonville590 ft
- Cincinnati Township530 ft
- Pekin530 ft
- Pekin Township520 ft
- South Pekin510 ft
- North Pekin460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,360th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Tazewell County33rd highest of 36
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- 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. All public domain.