Flora, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
500 ft 155 m490 ft 150 m480 ft 145 m470 ft 140 m450 ft 135 m440 ft 135 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
Flora sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 480–500 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the east side
Highest
500 ft 155 m
on the west side
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside city limits
Flora spans about 60 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 500 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Flora | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (FOA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 473 ft144 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Clay County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 4,647 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.7 sq mi
- Density
- 991 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6689° N, 88.4856° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Elm River → Little Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Flora Municipal (FOA) 473 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62839
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Xenia540 ft
- Xenia Township540 ft
- Songer Township520 ft
- Flora490 ft
- Harter Township490 ft
- Louisville Township470 ft
- Louisville470 ft
- Stanford Township450 ft
- Keith Township450 ft
- Clay City Township440 ft
- Clay City440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,471st highest of 2,872
- Towns in Clay County9th highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Turkey Point500 ft
- Indian Point490 ft
- Little Potatoe Hill470 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.