Moline, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

720 ft 220 m680 ft 205 m660 ft 200 m620 ft 190 m580 ft 175 m560 ft 170 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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

Moline sits at about 680 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

680 ft 210 m

most residents: 580–700 ft

Lowest

560 ft 170 m

on the west side

Highest

720 ft 220 m

on the south side

Average

640 ft 195 m

all land inside city limits

Moline spans about 160 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	680 ft210 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side	720 ft220 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side	560 ft170 m
Town center USGS map point for Moline	580 ft175 m
Airport (MLI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.5 mi south of the city limits	590 ft180 m
Average of all land	640 ft195 m

Elevation profile, south to north

5.2 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States
Population: 42,442 2024 est.
Land area: 16.7 sq mi
Density: 2,537 per sq mi
Coordinates: 41.5067° N, 90.5151° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Quad Cities International (MLI) 590 ft
ZIP codes 3: 61240 61264 61265

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Illinois1,060th highest of 2,872
Towns in Rock Island County18th highest of 42

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Army Ridge Bluffs740 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.