Rush Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m1,100 ft 335 m1,040 ft 315 m910 ft 280 m790 ft 240 m730 ft 220 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Rush Township sits at about 940 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 290 m
most residents: 860–1,010 ft
Lowest
730 ft 220 m
on the west side
Highest
1,230 ft 375 m
on Benton Mound
Average
940 ft 285 m
all land inside township boundaries
Rush Township spans about 500 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 | 940 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Benton Mound | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 730 ft220 m |
| Average of all land | 940 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Rush Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 377 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.8 sq mi
- Density
- 10 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4085° N, 90.0308° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Warren1,010 ft
- Warren Township, Jo Daviess County1,010 ft
- Stockton1,000 ft
- Nora1,000 ft
- Stockton Township990 ft
- Nora Township980 ft
- Rush Township940 ft
- Wards Grove Township920 ft
- Apple Canyon Lake860 ft
- Thompson Township860 ft
- Woodbine Township820 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois19th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Jo Daviess County11th highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Benton Mound1,230 ft
- Mound Sumner1,180 ft
- Hudson Mound1,170 ft
- Squirrel Grove Mound1,170 ft
- Simmons Mound1,080 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.