Jefferson Township, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
850 ft 260 m800 ft 245 m780 ft 240 m730 ft 225 m690 ft 210 m670 ft 205 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
Jefferson Township sits at about 780 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 240 m
most residents: 740–800 ft
Lowest
670 ft 205 m
on the southwest side
Highest
850 ft 260 m
on the northeast side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside township boundaries
Jefferson Township spans about 180 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 | 780 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 850 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 670 ft205 m |
| Airport (MO8) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi east of the township boundaries | 845 ft258 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Jefferson Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Linn County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 676 2024 est.
- Land area
- 55.8 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 12 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7824° N, 93.1630° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- North Central Missouri Regional (MO8) 845 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Locust Creek Township820 ft
- Linneus820 ft
- Yellow Creek Township820 ft
- St. Catharine810 ft
- Laclede790 ft
- Jefferson Township780 ft
- Brookfield Township770 ft
- Brookfield770 ft
- Meadville760 ft
- Parson Creek Township750 ft
- Sumner680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri836th highest of 1,352
- Towns in Linn County18th highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stokes Mound910 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, 660 ft at 39.7043° N, 93.2412° 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.