Pella Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
700 ft 215 m680 ft 210 m680 ft 205 m670 ft 205 m650 ft 200 m650 ft 195 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
Pella Township sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 650–670 ft
Lowest
650 ft 195 m
on the northwest side
Highest
700 ft 215 m
on the southwest side
Average
660 ft 200 m
all land inside township boundaries
Pella Township spans about 50 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 700 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 650 ft195 m |
| Average of all land | 660 ft200 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Ford County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 160 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.2 sq mi
- Density
- 4.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7962° N, 88.1962° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- North Fork Vermilion River → Vermilion River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Chatsworth Township730 ft
- Chatsworth730 ft
- Mona Township720 ft
- Thawville690 ft
- Cullom690 ft
- Sullivan Township, Livingston County690 ft
- Ridgeland Township680 ft
- Charlotte Township680 ft
- Brenton Township670 ft
- Piper City670 ft
- Pella Township660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,308th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Ford Countylowest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Hill750 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, 650 ft at 40.8440° N, 88.2085° 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.