McLeansboro, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

530 ft 160 m500 ft 150 m480 ft 145 m450 ft 135 m420 ft 125 m400 ft 120 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.
City area: Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

McLeansboro sits at about 460 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

460 ft 140 m

most residents: 440–490 ft

Lowest

400 ft 120 m

on the south side

Highest

530 ft 160 m

on the west side

Average

460 ft 140 m

all land inside city limits

McLeansboro spans about 130 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	460 ft140 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side	530 ft160 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side	400 ft120 m
Town center USGS map point for McLeansboro	490 ft150 m
Average of all land	460 ft140 m

Elevation profile, west to east

2.8 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Hamilton County, Illinois, United States
Population: 2,593 2024 est.
Land area: 2.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
Density: 959 per sq mi
Coordinates: 38.0934° N, 88.5356° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: North Fork Saline River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 62859

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Illinois2,599th highest of 2,872
Towns in Hamilton County7th highest of 17

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Lowry Hill590 ft
Radio Hill560 ft
Bunker Hill, Hamilton County560 ft
Webbs Hill500 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.