Scotland Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
720 ft 220 m680 ft 210 m670 ft 205 m640 ft 195 m600 ft 185 m590 ft 180 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
Scotland Township sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 640–690 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the south side
Highest
720 ft 220 m
on the north side
Average
650 ft 200 m
all land inside township boundaries
Scotland Township spans about 130 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 720 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 590 ft180 m |
| Airport (MQB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi north of the township boundaries | 706 ft215 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Scotland Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in McDonough County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 401 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 11 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4157° N, 90.6373° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- La Moine River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Macomb Municipal (MQB) 706 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Macomb690 ft
- Emmet Township690 ft
- Macomb Township670 ft
- Bardolph670 ft
- Chalmers Township660 ft
- Industry660 ft
- Scotland Township660 ft
- Industry Township650 ft
- New Salem Township, McDonough County650 ft
- Adair650 ft
- Bethel Township630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,350th highest of 2,872
- Towns in McDonough County22nd highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dyers Mound730 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.