Riverside Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
640 ft 195 m630 ft 190 m620 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m600 ft 185 m590 ft 180 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
Riverside Township sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 610–620 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the southeast side
Highest
640 ft 195 m
on the north side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside township boundaries
Riverside 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 640 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Riverside Township | 620 ft190 m |
| Airport (ORD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.4 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 680 ft207 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Cook County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 16,112 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.0 sq mi
- Density
- 4,002 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.8350° N, 87.8228° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Chicago O'hare International (ORD) 680 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lyons Township630 ft
- La Grange Park630 ft
- North Riverside620 ft
- Brookfield620 ft
- Riverside Township620 ft
- Stickney Township620 ft
- Lyons620 ft
- Riverside610 ft
- Berwyn610 ft
- Stickney610 ft
- Forest View590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,788th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Cook County101st highest of 144
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blanchard Hill780 ft
- Players Hill620 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.