Pleasant Vale Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
770 ft 235 m690 ft 210 m650 ft 200 m570 ft 175 m490 ft 150 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
Pleasant Vale Township sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 145 m
most residents: 460–690 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the southwest side
Highest
770 ft 235 m
on the east side
Average
550 ft 165 m
all land inside township boundaries
Pleasant Vale Township spans about 330 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 770 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 440 ft135 m |
| Average of all land | 550 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.3 mi west to east through the middle of Pleasant Vale Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Pike County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 492 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.9 sq mi
- Density
- 13 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6366° N, 91.0931° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- El Dara740 ft
- Hadley Township740 ft
- Derry Township730 ft
- Barry720 ft
- Barry Township710 ft
- Kinderhook530 ft
- Pleasant Vale Township480 ft
- New Canton470 ft
- Kinderhook Township470 ft
- Hull470 ft
- Cincinnati Township, Pike County460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,522nd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Pike County32nd highest of 42
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).
- 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 39.5851° N, 91.1299° 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.