Richview Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
600 ft 185 m570 ft 175 m550 ft 170 m520 ft 160 m490 ft 150 m480 ft 145 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
Richview Township sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 520–580 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the southeast side
Highest
600 ft 185 m
on the southwest side
Average
550 ft 165 m
all land inside township boundaries
Richview Township spans about 120 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 600 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 480 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Richview Township | 540 ft165 m |
| Average of all land | 550 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Washington County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 311 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.0 sq mi
- Density
- 26 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3784° N, 89.1801° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Rayse Creek → Big Muddy River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ashley550 ft
- Ashley Township550 ft
- Irvington550 ft
- Grand Prairie Township540 ft
- Richview Township540 ft
- Richview540 ft
- Irvington Township540 ft
- Radom530 ft
- Beaucoup Township520 ft
- Hoyleton520 ft
- Hoyleton Township510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,267th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Washington County4th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Creeds Hill610 ft
- Fikes Hill580 ft
- Schaeffer Hill530 ft
- The Pinnacle520 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.