Bethalto, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
550 ft 165 m520 ft 160 m510 ft 155 m480 ft 145 m450 ft 135 m440 ft 135 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bethalto sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 490–530 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the west side
Highest
550 ft 165 m
on the south side
Average
520 ft 155 m
all land inside village limits
Bethalto spans about 110 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 550 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bethalto | 530 ft160 m |
| Airport (ALN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 544 ft166 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Madison County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 9,183 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,207 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9092° N, 90.0407° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- St Louis Regional (ALN) 544 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 62010 62018
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Foster Township530 ft
- Moro Township530 ft
- Moro530 ft
- Rosewood Heights530 ft
- Holiday Shores520 ft
- Bethalto520 ft
- Fort Russell Township520 ft
- Wood River Township450 ft
- Roxana440 ft
- Wood River440 ft
- East Alton440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,356th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Madison County34th highest of 54
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fox Hill600 ft
- Browns Mound, Madison County590 ft
- Neudeckers Mountain560 ft
- Monks Mound520 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.