Normal, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
890 ft 270 m860 ft 260 m840 ft 255 m800 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m750 ft 230 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Normal sits at about 800 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
800 ft 245 m
most residents: 780–840 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the southwest side
Highest
890 ft 270 m
on the north side
Average
810 ft 245 m
all land inside town limits
Normal spans about 140 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 | 800 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 890 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 750 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Normal | 800 ft245 m |
| Airport (BMI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi southeast of the town limits | 871 ft265 m |
| Average of all land | 810 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in McLean County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 53,304 2024 est.
- Land area
- 18.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,855 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5142° N, 88.9906° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Sugar Creek → Sangamon River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Central Il Regional/Bloomington-Normal (BMI) 871 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 61761
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bloomington830 ft
- Towanda Township810 ft
- Normal800 ft
- Normal Township800 ft
- Twin Grove800 ft
- Dry Grove Township800 ft
- Bloomington Township790 ft
- Towanda780 ft
- Hudson770 ft
- Dale Township770 ft
- Hudson Township770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois246th highest of 2,872
- Towns in McLean County10th highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Mound, McLean County850 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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, 750 ft at 40.4976° N, 89.0104° 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.