Watson Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
600 ft 185 m570 ft 175 m560 ft 170 m530 ft 160 m500 ft 150 m480 ft 145 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
Watson Township sits at about 560 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
560 ft 170 m
most residents: 530–590 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the southeast side
Highest
600 ft 185 m
on the north side
Average
550 ft 170 m
all land inside township boundaries
Watson Township spans about 120 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 | 560 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 600 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 480 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Watson Township | 560 ft170 m |
| Airport (1H2) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 585 ft178 m |
| Average of all land | 550 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Effingham County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 3,188 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi
- Density
- 89 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0253° N, 88.5698° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Little Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Effingham County Regional (1H2) 585 ft
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Summit Township600 ft
- Douglas Township590 ft
- Effingham590 ft
- Mason580 ft
- Edgewood570 ft
- Mason Township570 ft
- Jackson Township, Effingham County570 ft
- Watson Township560 ft
- Watson560 ft
- Lucas Township550 ft
- Union Township, Effingham County530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,185th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Effingham County22nd highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Jordan Hill560 ft
- Turkey Point500 ft
- Indian Point490 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).
- 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, 480 ft at 39.0079° N, 88.5326° 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.