Brighton, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
680 ft 205 m660 ft 200 m650 ft 200 m640 ft 195 m620 ft 190 m610 ft 185 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
Brighton sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 650–660 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the southeast side
Highest
680 ft 205 m
on the southwest side
Average
660 ft 200 m
all land inside village limits
Brighton spans about 70 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 680 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Brighton | 660 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 660 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Macoupin and Jersey counties, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 2,164 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,126 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0398° N, 90.1407° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 62012
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Brighton660 ft
- Brighton Township650 ft
- Fidelity630 ft
- Shipman630 ft
- Mississippi Township620 ft
- Shipman Township620 ft
- Piasa Township620 ft
- Medora610 ft
- Godfrey590 ft
- Fidelity Township590 ft
- Foster Township530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,325th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Macoupin County13th highest of 53
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.