Merritt, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

630 ft 190 m620 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m610 ft 185 m600 ft 180 m590 ft 180 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
Area: Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Merritt sits at about 600 ft (185 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

600 ft 185 m

few residents

Lowest

590 ft 180 m

on the southeast side

Highest

600 ft 185 m

on the north side

Average

600 ft 185 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Merritt is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 10 ft, so the figures below sit close together.

Figure	Elevation
Typical (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by	600 ft185 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side	600 ft185 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side	590 ft180 m
Town center USGS map point for Merritt	600 ft185 m
Average of all land	600 ft185 m

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Scott County, Illinois, United States
Population: 48 2020 Census
Land area: under 0.1 sq mi
Density: 1,231 per sq mi
Coordinates: 39.7145° N, 90.4160° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 62650

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Chapin620 ft
Lynnville620 ft
South Jacksonville620 ft
Jacksonville610 ft
Merritt600 ft
Riggston600 ft
Concord600 ft
Exeter570 ft
Winchester540 ft
Bluffs470 ft
Oxville470 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Illinois1,948th highest of 2,872
Towns in Scott County3rd highest of 10

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

The Mound, Morgan County720 ft
Allison Mound690 ft
Browns Mound, Scott County630 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (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.
Merritt is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.