Mundelein, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
860 ft 265 m810 ft 245 m780 ft 240 m730 ft 220 m670 ft 205 m640 ft 195 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Mundelein sits at about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 230 m
most residents: 730–810 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the east side
Highest
860 ft 265 m
on the west side
Average
780 ft 235 m
all land inside village limits
Mundelein spans about 220 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 | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 860 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 640 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mundelein | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (C81) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi northwest of the village limits | 788 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Lake County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 32,641 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.3 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,881 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2631° N, 88.0040° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Des Plaines River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Campbell (C81) 788 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 60048 60060
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hawthorn Woods840 ft
- Forest Lake810 ft
- Fremont Township790 ft
- Mundelein750 ft
- Indian Creek740 ft
- Libertyville Township710 ft
- Vernon Hills700 ft
- Libertyville700 ft
- Green Oaks690 ft
- Mettawa690 ft
- Vernon Township690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois505th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Lake County36th highest of 72
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gander Mountain957 ft
- Camelback Kame870 ft
- Bald Knob, McHenry County790 ft
- Leahy Hill770 ft
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.