Elkhart, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
760 ft 230 m710 ft 215 m690 ft 210 m640 ft 195 m590 ft 180 m570 ft 175 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
Elkhart sits at about 590 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
590 ft 180 m
most residents: 590–610 ft
Lowest
570 ft 175 m
on the southeast side
Highest
760 ft 230 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
600 ft 185 m
all land inside village limits
Elkhart 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 | 590 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 760 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 570 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elkhart | 590 ft180 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Logan County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 440 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Density
- 235 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0206° N, 89.4829° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Salt Creek → Sangamon River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 62634
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Buffalo Hart Township620 ft
- Cornland600 ft
- Elkhart Township600 ft
- Hurlbut Township590 ft
- Elkhart590 ft
- Williamsville590 ft
- Broadwell Township590 ft
- Broadwell580 ft
- Middletown580 ft
- Williams Township580 ft
- Corwin Township580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,015th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Logan County17th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elkhart Hill771 ft
- Walnut Hill650 ft
- Polecat Hill610 ft
- Lockenauer Hill590 ft
- Pool Hill590 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.