Lake Zurich, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m870 ft 265 m860 ft 260 m830 ft 250 m800 ft 245 m790 ft 240 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
Lake Zurich sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 820–870 ft
Lowest
790 ft 240 m
on the southeast side
Highest
900 ft 275 m
on the northeast side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside village limits
Lake Zurich 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 900 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 790 ft240 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lake Zurich | 870 ft265 m |
| Airport (C81) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.1 mi north of the village limits | 788 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Lake County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 19,960 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.9 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,883 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1970° N, 88.0934° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Fox River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Campbell (C81) 788 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 60047
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Barrington Township860 ft
- Lake Zurich850 ft
- Deer Park840 ft
- Barrington840 ft
- Hawthorn Woods840 ft
- Ela Township840 ft
- North Barrington830 ft
- Forest Lake810 ft
- Kildeer790 ft
- Lake Barrington780 ft
- Tower Lakes770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois141st highest of 2,872
- Towns in Lake Countyhighest of 72
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Knob, McHenry County790 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.