Edwardsville, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
600 ft 180 m550 ft 165 m530 ft 160 m480 ft 145 m440 ft 135 m410 ft 125 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
Edwardsville sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 510–560 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the west side
Highest
600 ft 180 m
on the southwest side
Average
500 ft 155 m
all land inside city limits
Edwardsville spans about 190 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 600 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 410 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Edwardsville | 550 ft165 m |
| Airport (ALN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi northwest of the city limits | 544 ft166 m |
| Average of all land | 500 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Madison County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 26,715 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.0 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,334 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8114° N, 89.9532° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- St Louis Regional (ALN) 544 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 62025 62026 62048
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Maryville570 ft
- Troy560 ft
- Jarvis Township560 ft
- Glen Carbon550 ft
- Edwardsville Township550 ft
- Edwardsville540 ft
- Pin Oak Township540 ft
- Fort Russell Township520 ft
- Roxana440 ft
- South Roxana440 ft
- Chouteau Township430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,263rd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Madison County19th highest of 54
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fox Hill600 ft
- Browns Mound, Madison County590 ft
- Neudeckers Mountain560 ft
- Monks Mound520 ft
- Rattlesnake Mound430 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, 410 ft at 38.7768° N, 90.0640° 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.