Glencoe, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
690 ft 210 m660 ft 200 m650 ft 195 m620 ft 190 m590 ft 180 m580 ft 175 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Glencoe sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 630–680 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the east side
Highest
690 ft 210 m
on the northwest side
Average
650 ft 200 m
all land inside village limits
Glencoe spans about 110 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 690 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 580 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Glencoe | 670 ft205 m |
| Airport (ORD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southwest of the village limits | 680 ft207 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Cook County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 8,720 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,345 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1350° N, 87.7581° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Chicago O'hare International (ORD) 680 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 60022
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Moraine Township670 ft
- Northbrook660 ft
- Glencoe660 ft
- Highland Park660 ft
- Northfield Township660 ft
- Glenview650 ft
- Winnetka630 ft
- Northfield630 ft
- New Trier Township620 ft
- Wilmette620 ft
- Kenilworth610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,276th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Cook County40th highest of 144
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 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.