Niles, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
670 ft 205 m650 ft 200 m650 ft 195 m630 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m600 ft 185 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
Niles sits at about 650 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
650 ft 195 m
most residents: 620–660 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the southeast side
Highest
670 ft 205 m
on the northwest side
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside village limits
Niles spans about 70 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 | 650 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 670 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 600 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Niles | 630 ft195 m |
| Airport (ORD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.8 mi southwest of the village limits | 680 ft207 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Cook County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 29,918 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.8 sq mi
- Density
- 5,116 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.0189° N, 87.8028° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Chicago O'hare International (ORD) 680 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 60714
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Glenview650 ft
- Harwood Heights650 ft
- Niles650 ft
- Norwood Park Township650 ft
- Maine Township640 ft
- Park Ridge640 ft
- Golf630 ft
- Morton Grove630 ft
- Niles Township620 ft
- Skokie610 ft
- Lincolnwood610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,453rd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Cook County54th highest of 144
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Players Hill620 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).
- 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, 600 ft at 42.0043° N, 87.7901° 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.