Malden, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
720 ft 220 m710 ft 215 m710 ft 215 m700 ft 210 m690 ft 210 m680 ft 210 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
Malden sits at about 700 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
700 ft 215 m
most residents: 690–710 ft
Lowest
680 ft 210 m
on the south side
Highest
720 ft 220 m
on the north side
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside village limits
Malden spans about 40 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 | 700 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 720 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 680 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Malden | 700 ft215 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Bureau County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 310 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,136 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4245° N, 89.3693° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 61337
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Arlington750 ft
- Dover740 ft
- Dover Township710 ft
- Berlin Township710 ft
- Malden700 ft
- Princeton700 ft
- Princeton Township690 ft
- Hollowayville650 ft
- Seatonville620 ft
- Selby Township490 ft
- De Pue480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois846th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Bureau County19th highest of 48
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Owls Head660 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.