Champaign, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
830 ft 255 m800 ft 245 m780 ft 240 m750 ft 225 m710 ft 215 m690 ft 210 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Champaign sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
740 ft 225 m
most residents: 720–760 ft
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the southwest side
Highest
830 ft 255 m
on the northwest side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside city limits
Champaign spans about 140 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 830 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 690 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Champaign | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (CMI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi south of the city limits | 755 ft230 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Champaign County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 91,961 2024 est.
- Land area
- 23.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,968 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1164° N, 88.2434° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Salt Fork → Vermilion River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- University of Illinois/Willard (CMI) 755 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 61820 61821 61822
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hensley Township760 ft
- Champaign740 ft
- Philo730 ft
- Urbana730 ft
- Savoy730 ft
- Philo Township730 ft
- Champaign Township730 ft
- Somer Township730 ft
- Urbana Township720 ft
- Bondville710 ft
- Scott Township, Champaign County710 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois589th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Champaign County8th highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Mound, Champaign County740 ft
- Blue Mound, Champaign County710 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, 670 ft at 40.1112° N, 88.2404° 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. All public domain.