West Galena Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
850 ft 260 m780 ft 240 m750 ft 230 m690 ft 210 m620 ft 190 m590 ft 180 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
West Galena Township sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
740 ft 225 m
most residents: 620–790 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the southwest side
Highest
850 ft 260 m
on the northwest side
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside township boundaries
West Galena Township spans about 260 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 850 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 590 ft180 m |
| Airport (DBQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,076 ft328 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the middle of West Galena Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 3,141 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.6 sq mi + 1.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 327 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4185° N, 90.4375° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Dubuque Regional (DBQ) 1,076 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- The Galena Territory820 ft
- Vinegar Hill Township810 ft
- Council Hill Township810 ft
- Rawlins Township800 ft
- Menominee Township800 ft
- Menominee800 ft
- Rice Township750 ft
- West Galena Township740 ft
- East Galena Township740 ft
- Galena740 ft
- St. Donatus, IA690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois575th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Jo Daviess County29th highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Scales Mound1,160 ft
- Horseshoe Mound1,076 ft
- Wenzel Mound1,050 ft
- Dygerts Mound1,010 ft
- Pilot Knob, Jo Daviess County1,000 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.