Rural Township, Shelby County, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
760 ft 235 m720 ft 220 m690 ft 210 m650 ft 195 m600 ft 180 m570 ft 175 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
Rural Township, Shelby County sits at about 630 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
630 ft 195 m
most residents: 620–660 ft
Lowest
570 ft 175 m
on the southeast side
Highest
760 ft 235 m
on the south side
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside township boundaries
Rural Township, Shelby County spans about 190 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 | 630 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 760 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 570 ft175 m |
| Airport (2H0) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.2 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 619 ft189 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Rural Township, Shelby County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Shelby County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 310 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.6 sq mi
- Density
- 9.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4739° N, 88.9729° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kaskaskia River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Shelby County (2H0) 619 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pana690 ft
- Pana Township690 ft
- Pickaway Township690 ft
- Westervelt660 ft
- Tower Hill650 ft
- Tower Hill Township650 ft
- Ridge Township650 ft
- Assumption640 ft
- Assumption Township640 ft
- Rural Township, Shelby County630 ft
- Flat Branch Township630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,623rd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Shelby County24th highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Long Mound680 ft
- Blue Mound, Macon County670 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.