Canton, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
700 ft 215 m660 ft 200 m640 ft 195 m600 ft 185 m560 ft 170 m540 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
Canton sits at about 650 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
650 ft 200 m
most residents: 640–670 ft
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the east side
Highest
700 ft 215 m
on the north side
Average
650 ft 200 m
all land inside city limits
Canton spans about 160 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 | 650 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 700 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 540 ft165 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Canton | 650 ft200 m |
| Airport (CTK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 684 ft208 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Fulton County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 12,896 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.4 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,537 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5581° N, 90.0351° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Ingersoll (CTK) 684 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 61520
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Norris730 ft
- Joshua Township670 ft
- Canton Township650 ft
- Canton650 ft
- Dunfermline630 ft
- Buckheart Township630 ft
- St. David630 ft
- Bryant610 ft
- Orion Township610 ft
- Banner Township, Fulton County550 ft
- Banner480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,379th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Fulton County17th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Haney Hill760 ft
- Tampico Mounds579 ft
- The Mound, Tazewell County530 ft
- Hickory Grove Hill510 ft
- Little Mound490 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 540 ft at 40.5613° N, 89.9743° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.