Peoria City Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
820 ft 250 m730 ft 220 m680 ft 205 m580 ft 180 m490 ft 150 m440 ft 135 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Peoria City Township sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 520–760 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the south side
Highest
820 ft 250 m
on the north side
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside township boundaries
Peoria City Township spans about 380 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 820 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 440 ft135 m |
| Airport (PIA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 661 ft201 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the middle of Peoria City Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Peoria County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 96,579 2024 est.
- Land area
- 40.1 sq mi + 2.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,411 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7301° N, 89.6115° 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
- Peoria Heights730 ft
- Richwoods Township730 ft
- East Peoria670 ft
- Creve Coeur660 ft
- Bellevue660 ft
- Peoria650 ft
- Norwood640 ft
- Peoria City Township640 ft
- Limestone Township630 ft
- Fondulac Township620 ft
- West Peoria590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,595th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Peoria County23rd highest of 39
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Mound, Tazewell County530 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).
- 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, 440 ft at 40.6596° N, 89.6229° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.