Naperville, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
790 ft 240 m750 ft 230 m720 ft 220 m680 ft 205 m640 ft 195 m610 ft 185 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Naperville sits at about 700 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
700 ft 210 m
most residents: 660–730 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the south side
Highest
790 ft 240 m
on the northeast side
Average
700 ft 210 m
all land inside city limits
Naperville spans about 180 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 | 700 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 790 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Naperville | 710 ft215 m |
| Airport (1C5) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi south of the city limits | 675 ft206 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in DuPage and Will counties, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 153,124 2024 est.
- Land area
- 39.4 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,886 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.7859° N, 88.1473° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Bolingbrook's Clow International (1C5) 675 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 60540 60563 60564 60565
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Milton Township760 ft
- Wheaton760 ft
- Woodridge750 ft
- Winfield750 ft
- Winfield Township740 ft
- Lisle Township730 ft
- Lisle730 ft
- Warrenville720 ft
- Naperville Township700 ft
- Naperville700 ft
- Du Page Township680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois901st highest of 2,872
- Towns in DuPage County31st highest of 39
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Johnsons Mound890 ft
- Mount Hoy830 ft
- Blanchard Hill780 ft
- Waubonsie Hill710 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).
- 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, 610 ft at 41.6693° N, 88.1860° 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.
- 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.