Mitchell, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
460 ft 140 m450 ft 135 m440 ft 135 m430 ft 135 m430 ft 130 m420 ft 130 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Mitchell sits at about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
430 ft 130 m
most residents: 420–430 ft
Lowest
420 ft 130 m
on the east side
Highest
450 ft 135 m
on the southwest side
Average
430 ft 130 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Mitchell 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 | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 450 ft135 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 420 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mitchell | 430 ft130 m |
| Airport (STL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 15 mi west of the CDP boundary | 617 ft188 m |
| Average of all land | 430 ft130 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Madison County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,217 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,177 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7620° N, 90.0854° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- St Louis Lambert International (STL) 617 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62040
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Glen Carbon550 ft
- Glasgow Village, MO530 ft
- Roxana440 ft
- South Roxana440 ft
- Hartford430 ft
- Mitchell430 ft
- Chouteau Township430 ft
- Granite City420 ft
- Granite City Township420 ft
- Nameoki Township420 ft
- Pontoon Beach420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,728th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Madison County46th highest of 54
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fox Hill600 ft
- Browns Mound, Madison County590 ft
- Winstanley Hill580 ft
- Monks Mound520 ft
- Rattlesnake Mound430 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 420 ft at 38.7643° N, 90.0774° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Mitchell 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.