Fairview Heights, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
630 ft 190 m580 ft 175 m550 ft 170 m500 ft 155 m450 ft 140 m430 ft 130 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
Fairview Heights sits at about 580 ft (175 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
580 ft 175 m
most residents: 550–590 ft
Lowest
430 ft 130 m
on the west side
Highest
630 ft 190 m
on the northwest side
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside city limits
Fairview Heights spans about 200 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 | 580 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 630 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 430 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fairview Heights | 580 ft180 m |
| Airport (BLV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi east of the city limits | 459 ft140 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 16,115 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,406 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.5889° N, 89.9904° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Silver Creek → Kaskaskia River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Scott Afb/Midamerica St Louis (BLV) 459 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62208
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fairview Heights580 ft
- Swansea570 ft
- Caseyville Township560 ft
- St. Clair Township550 ft
- Shiloh550 ft
- Stookey Township550 ft
- O'Fallon550 ft
- O'Fallon Township540 ft
- Belleville530 ft
- Caseyville430 ft
- Canteen Township420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,110th highest of 2,872
- Towns in St. Clair County3rd highest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Clarks Mound677 ft
- Fox Hill600 ft
- Winstanley Hill580 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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.