Glasgow, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
600 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m550 ft 165 m510 ft 155 m480 ft 145 m460 ft 140 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
Glasgow sits at about 590 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
590 ft 180 m
most residents: 570–590 ft
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the southwest side
Highest
600 ft 180 m
on the southeast side
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside village limits
Glasgow spans about 140 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 | 590 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 600 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 460 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Glasgow | 590 ft180 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Scott County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 107 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 106 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5506° N, 90.4801° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 62694
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Manchester680 ft
- Village of Wilmington670 ft
- Roodhouse660 ft
- Roodhouse Township660 ft
- Montezuma Township650 ft
- Alsey630 ft
- Patterson Township610 ft
- Glasgow590 ft
- Winchester540 ft
- Hillview500 ft
- Florence470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,075th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Scott County5th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Calvert Hill740 ft
- Pilot Knob, Pike County740 ft
- The Mound, Morgan County720 ft
- Allison Mound690 ft
- Browns Mound, Scott County630 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.