Ursa Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
690 ft 210 m630 ft 195 m610 ft 185 m550 ft 165 m490 ft 150 m460 ft 140 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
Ursa Township sits at about 600 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
600 ft 185 m
most residents: 550–620 ft
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the southwest side
Highest
690 ft 210 m
on the southeast side
Average
530 ft 160 m
all land inside township boundaries
Ursa Township spans about 230 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 | 600 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 690 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 460 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ursa Township | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (UIN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.5 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 769 ft234 m |
| Average of all land | 530 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Adams County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,086 2024 est.
- Land area
- 57.1 sq mi + 3.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 19 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0748° N, 91.3674° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Quincy Regional-Baldwin Field (UIN) 769 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mendon750 ft
- Mendon Township740 ft
- Fowler730 ft
- Bloomfield710 ft
- Lima660 ft
- Lima Township630 ft
- Marcelline610 ft
- Ursa610 ft
- Ursa Township600 ft
- Riverside Township, Adams County590 ft
- La Grange, MO580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,924th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Adams County44th highest of 47
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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 460 ft at 40.0312° N, 91.4279° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.