Elsah, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
670 ft 205 m610 ft 185 m580 ft 175 m510 ft 155 m450 ft 140 m420 ft 130 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
Elsah sits at about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
610 ft 185 m
most residents: 530–620 ft
Lowest
420 ft 130 m
on the south side
Highest
670 ft 205 m
on the west side
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside village limits
Elsah spans about 250 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 | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 670 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 420 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elsah | 440 ft135 m |
| Airport (STL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi south of the village limits | 617 ft188 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Jersey County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 519 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 475 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9562° N, 90.3598° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- St Louis Lambert International (STL) 617 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62028
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Grafton680 ft
- Quarry Township670 ft
- Mississippi Township620 ft
- Otterville620 ft
- Otter Creek Township, Jersey County610 ft
- Elsah610 ft
- Elsah Township610 ft
- Godfrey590 ft
- Old Jamestown, MO520 ft
- Portage Des Sioux, MO440 ft
- West Alton, MO430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,886th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Jersey County12th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tucker Knob890 ft
- McAdams Peak850 ft
- McCoy Hill800 ft
- Dug Hill740 ft
- Lone Tree Indian Mound580 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.