Chatham, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
620 ft 190 m600 ft 185 m600 ft 180 m580 ft 175 m570 ft 175 m560 ft 170 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
Chatham sits at about 600 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
600 ft 185 m
most residents: 590–600 ft
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the southeast side
Highest
620 ft 190 m
on the south side
Average
600 ft 180 m
all land inside village limits
Chatham spans about 60 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 | 600 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 620 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 560 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Chatham | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (SPI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.7 mi north of the village limits | 598 ft182 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 14,639 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,947 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6762° N, 89.7045° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Sangamon River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Abraham Lincoln Capital (SPI) 598 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62629
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Auburn Township630 ft
- Auburn620 ft
- Curran620 ft
- Curran Township610 ft
- Southern View610 ft
- Jerome600 ft
- Leland Grove600 ft
- Chatham Township600 ft
- Woodside Township600 ft
- Chatham600 ft
- Ball Township600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,966th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Sangamon County29th highest of 51
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cotton Hill610 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.