Burnt Prairie, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
470 ft 140 m460 ft 140 m450 ft 140 m450 ft 135 m440 ft 135 m430 ft 130 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
Burnt Prairie sits at about 450 ft (140 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside village limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
450 ft 140 m
few residents
Lowest
430 ft 130 m
on the northeast side
Highest
460 ft 140 m
on the southwest side
Average
450 ft 140 m
all land inside village limits
Burnt Prairie 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 450 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 460 ft140 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 430 ft130 m |
| Average of all land | 450 ft140 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in White County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 33 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 434 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.2508° N, 88.2595° 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
- 62820
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Barnhill Township460 ft
- Burnt Prairie450 ft
- Big Mound Township450 ft
- Fairfield450 ft
- Grover Township440 ft
- Burnt Prairie Township410 ft
- Mill Shoals Township410 ft
- Mill Shoals410 ft
- Springerton400 ft
- Leech Township400 ft
- Golden Gate390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,619th highest of 2,872
- Towns in White County2nd highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Boyd Hill580 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the village limits; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.