Creston, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 285 m910 ft 275 m890 ft 275 m870 ft 265 m850 ft 260 m840 ft 255 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
Creston sits at about 910 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 275 m
most residents: 890–910 ft
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the northwest side
Highest
930 ft 285 m
on the southwest side
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside village limits
Creston spans about 90 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 | 910 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 930 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 840 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Creston | 900 ft275 m |
| Airport (RPJ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.4 mi southwest of the village limits | 781 ft238 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Ogle County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 618 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 539 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.9309° N, 88.9645° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Rock River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Rochelle Municipal/Koritz Field (RPJ) 781 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 60113 61068
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Malta910 ft
- Malta Township910 ft
- Creston910 ft
- Dement Township900 ft
- Milan Township890 ft
- South Grove Township850 ft
- Alto Township830 ft
- Steward820 ft
- Hillcrest810 ft
- Rochelle800 ft
- Lynnville Township770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois67th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Ogle County6th highest of 42
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.