Ross Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
750 ft 230 m710 ft 220 m700 ft 210 m660 ft 200 m620 ft 190 m610 ft 185 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
Ross Township sits at about 650 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
650 ft 195 m
most residents: 640–650 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the east side
Highest
750 ft 230 m
on the northwest side
Average
670 ft 205 m
all land inside township boundaries
Ross Township spans about 140 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 | 650 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 750 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (PRG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.4 mi south of the township boundaries | 654 ft199 m |
| Average of all land | 670 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Ross Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Edgar County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,471 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.6 sq mi
- Density
- 40 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8080° N, 87.6776° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Edgar County (PRG) 654 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ridge Farm700 ft
- Elwood Township690 ft
- Indianola670 ft
- Carroll Township670 ft
- Metcalf660 ft
- Young America Township650 ft
- Ross Township650 ft
- Chrisman640 ft
- Edgar Township640 ft
- Prairie Township, Edgar County640 ft
- Brouilletts Creek Township600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,469th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Edgar County17th highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dole Hill710 ft
- Wolf Mound690 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.