South Macon Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
750 ft 230 m710 ft 220 m700 ft 215 m660 ft 200 m630 ft 190 m610 ft 185 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
South Macon Township sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 690–720 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the southwest side
Highest
750 ft 230 m
on the southeast side
Average
690 ft 210 m
all land inside township boundaries
South Macon 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 750 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (DEC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.2 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 682 ft208 m |
| Average of all land | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of South Macon Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Macon County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,417 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.8 sq mi
- Density
- 42 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7038° N, 88.9956° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- South Fork Sangamon River → Sangamon River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Decatur (DEC) 682 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Macon710 ft
- South Macon Township710 ft
- Elwin710 ft
- Boody680 ft
- South Wheatland Township670 ft
- Blue Mound Township660 ft
- Moweaqua Township620 ft
- Moweaqua620 ft
- Pleasant View Township620 ft
- Blue Mound620 ft
- Prairieton Township610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois794th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Macon County4th highest of 30
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.