Richfield Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 255 m760 ft 230 m720 ft 220 m640 ft 195 m560 ft 170 m520 ft 155 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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
Richfield Township sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 620–780 ft
Lowest
520 ft 155 m
on the southwest side
Highest
840 ft 255 m
on the northwest side
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside township boundaries
Richfield Township spans about 320 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 840 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 520 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Richfield Township | 720 ft220 m |
| Airport (UIN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.1 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 769 ft234 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Adams County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 396 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.0 sq mi
- Density
- 10 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8153° N, 91.1165° 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
- Kingston, Adams County800 ft
- Beverly790 ft
- Beverly Township760 ft
- Liberty750 ft
- Liberty Township740 ft
- Payson730 ft
- Payson Township720 ft
- Adams720 ft
- Richfield Township710 ft
- Richfield690 ft
- Plainville690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois770th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Adams County23rd 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.