Benton Township, Linn County, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
940 ft 285 m880 ft 270 m850 ft 260 m790 ft 240 m740 ft 225 m710 ft 215 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
Benton Township, Linn County sits at about 820 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
820 ft 250 m
most residents: 760–880 ft
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the southwest side
Highest
940 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Average
800 ft 245 m
all land inside township boundaries
Benton Township, Linn County 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 | 820 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 940 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 710 ft215 m |
| Average of all land | 800 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.1 mi west to east through the middle of Benton Township, Linn County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Linn County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 440 2024 est.
- Land area
- 31.2 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 14 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9945° N, 93.1749° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Grand River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Humphreys930 ft
- Enterprise Township920 ft
- North Salem Township910 ft
- Purdin860 ft
- Jackson Township, Linn County850 ft
- Grantsville Township840 ft
- Benton Township, Linn County820 ft
- Locust Creek Township820 ft
- Linneus820 ft
- Clay Township, Linn County780 ft
- Browning770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri721st highest of 1,352
- Towns in Linn County11th highest of 23
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.