Baldwin, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
470 ft 145 m470 ft 140 m460 ft 140 m450 ft 140 m450 ft 135 m440 ft 135 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Baldwin sits at about 460 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
460 ft 140 m
most residents: 450–460 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the west side
Highest
470 ft 145 m
on the northeast side
Average
460 ft 140 m
all land inside village limits
Baldwin spans about 30 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 | 460 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 470 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Baldwin | 460 ft140 m |
| Airport (SAR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.7 mi east of the village limits | 538 ft164 m |
| Average of all land | 460 ft140 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Randolph County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 315 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 473 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.1831° N, 89.8426° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Sparta Community-Hunter Field (SAR) 538 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62217
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sparta530 ft
- Tilden510 ft
- Red Bud470 ft
- Baldwin460 ft
- Marissa460 ft
- Marissa Township460 ft
- Ruma450 ft
- Evansville440 ft
- Lenzburg440 ft
- Lenzburg Township430 ft
- New Athens Township420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,583rd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Randolph County8th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Haubers Hill550 ft
- Dutch Hill, St. Clair County490 ft
- Point Lookout480 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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. All public domain.