McLean, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

720 ft 220 m710 ft 215 m710 ft 215 m700 ft 215 m690 ft 210 m690 ft 210 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

McLean sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

710 ft 215 m

most residents: 700–710 ft

Lowest

690 ft 210 m

on the southeast side

Highest

720 ft 220 m

on the southwest side

Average

700 ft 215 m

all land inside village limits

McLean 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	710 ft215 m
Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side	720 ft220 m
Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side	690 ft210 m
Town center USGS map point for McLean	710 ft215 m
Average of all land	700 ft215 m

Elevation profile, west to east

1.1 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Village in McLean County, Illinois, United States
Population: 736 2024 est.
Land area: 1.2 sq mi
Density: 625 per sq mi
Coordinates: 40.3145° N, 89.1698° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Kickapoo Creek → Sangamon River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 61754

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Illinois805th highest of 2,872
Towns in McLean County48th highest of 53

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.