Christopher, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
470 ft 140 m450 ft 135 m440 ft 135 m420 ft 130 m410 ft 125 m400 ft 120 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
Christopher sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 430–450 ft
Lowest
400 ft 120 m
on the south side
Highest
470 ft 140 m
on the west side
Average
440 ft 135 m
all land inside city limits
Christopher spans about 70 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 470 ft140 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 400 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Christopher | 440 ft135 m |
| Airport (MWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi south of the city limits | 472 ft144 m |
| Average of all land | 440 ft135 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Franklin County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 2,621 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,616 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9726° N, 89.0534° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Muddy River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois (MWA) 472 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62822
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- North City460 ft
- West City450 ft
- Mulkeytown440 ft
- Tyrone Township440 ft
- Christopher440 ft
- Browning Township430 ft
- Valier430 ft
- Orient420 ft
- Zeigler410 ft
- Six Mile Township400 ft
- Buckner400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,688th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Franklin County17th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Grammer Hill570 ft
- Moores Hill540 ft
- Turkey Knob490 ft
- Browning Hill450 ft
- Dutch Hill, Jackson County440 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).
- 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.