Albion, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
560 ft 170 m520 ft 160 m500 ft 155 m470 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m410 ft 125 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Albion sits at about 500 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
500 ft 155 m
most residents: 470–530 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the east side
Highest
560 ft 170 m
on the north side
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside city limits
Albion 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 | 500 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 560 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 410 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Albion | 520 ft160 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Edwards County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,868 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 875 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3775° N, 88.0561° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Little Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 62806
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West Salem510 ft
- Albion500 ft
- Bone Gap470 ft
- Gray Township440 ft
- Grayville430 ft
- Keensburg430 ft
- Bellmont430 ft
- Leech Township400 ft
- Massilon Township400 ft
- Browns400 ft
- Golden Gate390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,424th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Edwards County2nd highest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Boyd Hill580 ft
- Turkey Ridge400 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.