Fox Lake, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 285 m880 ft 270 m860 ft 260 m810 ft 245 m760 ft 230 m740 ft 225 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Fox Lake sits at about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 230 m
most residents: 740–790 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the northeast side
Highest
930 ft 285 m
on the north side
Average
790 ft 240 m
all land inside village limits
Fox Lake 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 | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 930 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fox Lake | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (C81) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi southeast of the village limits | 788 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 790 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Lake and McHenry counties, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 10,925 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.8 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,395 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3967° N, 88.1837° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Fox River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Campbell (C81) 788 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 60002 60020 60041 60081
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Spring Grove850 ft
- Burton Township840 ft
- Round Lake Heights790 ft
- Volo780 ft
- Johnsburg780 ft
- Pistakee Highlands770 ft
- Grant Township760 ft
- Long Lake760 ft
- Lakemoor760 ft
- Fox Lake Hills750 ft
- Fox Lake750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois501st highest of 2,872
- Towns in Lake County35th highest of 72
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gander Mountain957 ft
- Hill Fifteen910 ft
- Camelback Kame870 ft
- Bald Knob, McHenry County790 ft
- Leahy Hill770 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.