Joliet, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
700 ft 210 m650 ft 200 m620 ft 190 m580 ft 175 m530 ft 160 m500 ft 155 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Joliet sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 560–660 ft
Lowest
500 ft 155 m
on the southwest side
Highest
700 ft 210 m
on the southeast side
Average
610 ft 185 m
all land inside city limits
Joliet spans about 200 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 700 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 500 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Joliet | 540 ft165 m |
| Airport (LOT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi north of the city limits | 679 ft207 m |
| Average of all land | 610 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Will and Kendall counties, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 151,837 2024 est.
- Land area
- 66.3 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,292 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5250° N, 88.0817° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lewis University (LOT) 679 ft
- ZIP codes 11
- 60410 60421 60431 60432 60433 60435 60436 60442 60447 60451 60586
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lockport690 ft
- Ridgewood650 ft
- Lockport Township640 ft
- Fairmont640 ft
- Joliet Township630 ft
- Crest Hill630 ft
- Ingalls Park630 ft
- Preston Heights630 ft
- Joliet620 ft
- Sunnyland620 ft
- Rockdale580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,731st highest of 2,872
- Towns in Will County50th highest of 71
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Waubonsie Hill710 ft
- Maramech Hill650 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 440 ft at 41.5037° N, 88.0824° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.