Kankakee, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
670 ft 205 m650 ft 200 m640 ft 195 m620 ft 190 m600 ft 180 m590 ft 180 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
Kankakee sits at about 630 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
630 ft 190 m
most residents: 610–650 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the northwest side
Highest
670 ft 205 m
on the east side
Average
630 ft 190 m
all land inside city limits
Kankakee spans about 80 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 | 630 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 670 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kankakee | 660 ft200 m |
| Airport (IKK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 630 ft192 m |
| Average of all land | 630 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kankakee County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 23,535 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.1 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,554 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.1200° N, 87.8612° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Greater Kankakee (IKK) 630 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 60901 60922
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bourbonnais680 ft
- Bourbonnais Township670 ft
- Bradley650 ft
- Limestone Township, Kankakee County650 ft
- Limestone640 ft
- Otto Township630 ft
- Sammons Point630 ft
- Kankakee630 ft
- Kankakee Township630 ft
- Aroma Township620 ft
- Aroma Park620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,708th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Kankakee County27th highest of 36
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Hill750 ft
- Mount Langham731 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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.