Creal Springs, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
570 ft 175 m540 ft 165 m530 ft 160 m500 ft 150 m470 ft 145 m450 ft 140 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Creal Springs sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 500–530 ft
Lowest
450 ft 140 m
on the southeast side
Highest
570 ft 175 m
on the east side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside city limits
Creal Springs spans about 120 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 570 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 450 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Creal Springs | 510 ft155 m |
| Airport (MWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi northwest of the city limits | 472 ft144 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Williamson County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 498 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 485 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.6195° N, 88.8367° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- South Fork Saline River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois (MWA) 472 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62922
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Goreville730 ft
- New Burnside600 ft
- Creal Springs520 ft
- Crab Orchard510 ft
- Spillertown500 ft
- Pittsburg480 ft
- Marion440 ft
- Stonefort Township420 ft
- Stonefort420 ft
- Carrier Mills Township400 ft
- Simpson380 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,369th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Williamson Countyhighest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Jims Hill750 ft
- Buck Knob720 ft
- Sand Hill570 ft
- Island Hill, Johnson County450 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, 450 ft at 37.6146° N, 88.8299° 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.