Elmhurst, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
730 ft 225 m680 ft 205 m650 ft 200 m590 ft 180 m540 ft 165 m510 ft 155 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
Elmhurst sits at about 680 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
680 ft 210 m
most residents: 660–700 ft
Lowest
510 ft 155 m
on the west side
Highest
730 ft 225 m
on the northwest side
Average
680 ft 205 m
all land inside city limits
Elmhurst spans about 220 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 | 680 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 730 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 510 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elmhurst | 690 ft210 m |
| Airport (ORD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi north of the city limits | 680 ft207 m |
| Average of all land | 680 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in DuPage and Cook counties, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 46,108 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,512 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.8995° N, 87.9403° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Chicago O'hare International (ORD) 680 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 60126
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oakbrook Terrace720 ft
- York Township700 ft
- Villa Park690 ft
- Addison690 ft
- Addison Township690 ft
- Elmhurst680 ft
- Berkeley670 ft
- Hillside660 ft
- Northlake650 ft
- Stone Park640 ft
- Bellwood630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,055th highest of 2,872
- Towns in DuPage County38th highest of 39
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Hoy830 ft
- Blanchard Hill780 ft
- Players Hill620 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).
- 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.