Chester, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
720 ft 220 m630 ft 190 m590 ft 180 m500 ft 150 m410 ft 125 m360 ft 110 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
Chester sits at about 550 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 165 m
most residents: 400–640 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the south side
Highest
720 ft 220 m
on the northwest side
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside city limits
Chester spans about 360 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 | 550 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 720 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 360 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Chester | 670 ft205 m |
| Airport (PCD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.7 mi southwest of the city limits | 373 ft114 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Randolph County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 6,759 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,171 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9137° N, 89.8221° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Perryville Regional (PCD) 373 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62233
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ozora, MO620 ft
- Brewer, MO570 ft
- Ellis Grove550 ft
- Chester550 ft
- Degognia Township470 ft
- St. Mary, MO440 ft
- Ste. Genevieve, MO430 ft
- Steeleville430 ft
- Lithium, MO430 ft
- Rockwood390 ft
- Kaskaskia370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,260th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Randolph County3rd highest of 14
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).
- 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.