Godfrey, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
660 ft 205 m600 ft 185 m570 ft 175 m510 ft 155 m450 ft 135 m420 ft 125 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
Godfrey 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: 550–620 ft
Lowest
420 ft 125 m
on the southwest side
Highest
660 ft 205 m
on the north side
Average
570 ft 175 m
all land inside village limits
Godfrey spans about 240 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 north side | 660 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 420 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Godfrey | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (ALN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi southeast of the village limits | 544 ft166 m |
| Average of all land | 570 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Madison County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 17,610 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.4 sq mi + 2.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 512 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9556° N, 90.1868° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- St Louis Regional (ALN) 544 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 62002 62012 62035
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Brighton660 ft
- Brighton Township650 ft
- Mississippi Township620 ft
- Piasa Township620 ft
- Godfrey590 ft
- Foster Township530 ft
- Rosewood Heights530 ft
- Alton530 ft
- Wood River Township450 ft
- East Alton440 ft
- West Alton, MO430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,010th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Madison County4th highest of 54
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tucker Knob890 ft
- McAdams Peak850 ft
- McCoy Hill800 ft
- Dug Hill740 ft
- Lone Tree Indian Mound580 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. All public domain.