Scales Mound Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,230 ft 375 m1,120 ft 340 m1,070 ft 325 m950 ft 290 m840 ft 255 m790 ft 240 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Scales Mound Township sits at about 960 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

960 ft 295 m

most residents: 930–990 ft

Lowest

790 ft 240 m

on the west side

Highest

1,230 ft 375 m

on Charles Mound

Average

970 ft 295 m

all land inside township boundaries

Scales Mound Township spans about 440 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	960 ft295 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Charles Mound	1,230 ft375 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side	790 ft240 m
Town center USGS map point for Scales Mound Township	950 ft290 m
Average of all land	970 ft295 m

Elevation profile, south to north

3.3 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States
Population: 639 2024 est.
Land area: 18.5 sq mi
Density: 34 per sq mi
Coordinates: 42.4758° N, 90.2529° 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

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Illinois13th highest of 2,872
Towns in Jo Daviess County10th highest of 35

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Charles Mound1,230 ft
Hudson Mound1,170 ft
Squirrel Grove Mound1,170 ft
Scales Mound1,160 ft
Wenzel Mound1,050 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.