Athens, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
620 ft 190 m600 ft 180 m580 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m540 ft 165 m530 ft 165 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
Athens sits at about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
610 ft 185 m
most residents: 600–610 ft
Lowest
530 ft 160 m
on the southwest side
Highest
620 ft 190 m
on the northeast side
Average
600 ft 185 m
all land inside city limits
Athens spans about 90 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 | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 620 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 530 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Athens | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (SPI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.6 mi south of the city limits | 598 ft182 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Menard County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,903 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 1,130 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9609° N, 89.7240° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Sangamon River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Abraham Lincoln Capital (SPI) 598 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62613
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Athens610 ft
- Lake Petersburg600 ft
- Springfield Township590 ft
- Williamsville590 ft
- Gardner Township590 ft
- Cantrall580 ft
- Fancy Creek Township580 ft
- Williams Township580 ft
- Petersburg580 ft
- Sherman580 ft
- Greenview550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,901st highest of 2,872
- Towns in Menard County2nd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elkhart Hill771 ft
- Walnut Hill650 ft
- Kingfisher Hill620 ft
- Polecat Hill610 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.