Waynesville Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
770 ft 235 m730 ft 225 m710 ft 215 m680 ft 205 m640 ft 195 m620 ft 190 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Waynesville Township sits at about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
720 ft 220 m
most residents: 690–740 ft
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
on the northwest side
Highest
770 ft 235 m
on the east side
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside township boundaries
Waynesville Township spans about 150 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 | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 770 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 620 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waynesville Township | 730 ft225 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in De Witt County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 631 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.4 sq mi
- Density
- 26 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2389° N, 89.1231° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kickapoo Creek → Sangamon River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wapella740 ft
- Wapella Township740 ft
- Barnett Township740 ft
- Waynesville720 ft
- Waynesville Township720 ft
- Atlanta720 ft
- Atlanta Township710 ft
- McLean710 ft
- Mount Hope Township710 ft
- Beason640 ft
- Oran Township640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois728th highest of 2,872
- Towns in De Witt County16th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lockenauer Hill590 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, 620 ft at 40.2451° N, 89.1471° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.