De Soto, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
420 ft 130 m410 ft 125 m400 ft 120 m380 ft 115 m370 ft 110 m360 ft 110 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
De Soto sits at about 400 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
400 ft 120 m
most residents: 380–410 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the southwest side
Highest
420 ft 130 m
on the west side
Average
400 ft 120 m
all land inside village limits
De Soto 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 | 400 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 420 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 360 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for De Soto | 400 ft120 m |
| Airport (MWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi east of the village limits | 472 ft144 m |
| Average of all land | 400 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Jackson County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,408 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,544 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.8176° N, 89.2279° 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
- 62924
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cambria430 ft
- Carbondale420 ft
- Carbondale Township420 ft
- Bush410 ft
- Blairsville400 ft
- Somerset Township400 ft
- Harrison400 ft
- De Soto Township400 ft
- De Soto400 ft
- Elkville400 ft
- Hurst390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,805th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Jackson County21st highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Swallow Rock670 ft
- McKinney Hill520 ft
- Mount Carbon500 ft
- Indian Hill, Jackson County480 ft
- Dutch Hill, Jackson County440 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.