Hinckley, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
760 ft 230 m750 ft 230 m750 ft 225 m740 ft 225 m730 ft 220 m730 ft 220 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
Hinckley sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
740 ft 225 m
most residents: 740–750 ft
Lowest
730 ft 220 m
on the east side
Highest
760 ft 230 m
on the north side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside village limits
Hinckley spans about 30 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 760 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 730 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hinckley | 750 ft225 m |
| Airport (ARR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.5 mi east of the village limits | 712 ft217 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,976 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 2,303 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.7689° N, 88.6409° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Fox River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Aurora Municipal (ARR) 712 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 60520
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pierce Township830 ft
- Waterman820 ft
- Clinton Township820 ft
- Kaneville Township790 ft
- Kaneville780 ft
- Squaw Grove Township750 ft
- Hinckley740 ft
- Big Rock Township700 ft
- Big Rock700 ft
- Sandwich Township670 ft
- Little Rock Township650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois547th highest of 2,872
- Towns in DeKalb County25th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Johnsons Mound890 ft
- Maramech Hill650 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.