Oakford, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
570 ft 175 m550 ft 170 m540 ft 165 m520 ft 155 m490 ft 150 m480 ft 145 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Oakford sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 490–530 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the north side
Highest
570 ft 175 m
on the southwest side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside village limits
Oakford spans about 90 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 570 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 480 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Oakford | 500 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Menard County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 228 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 916 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1025° N, 89.9632° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Sangamon River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 62673
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lake Petersburg600 ft
- Salt Creek Township600 ft
- Newmansville Township590 ft
- Petersburg580 ft
- Crane Creek Township540 ft
- Kilbourne500 ft
- Kilbourne Township490 ft
- Oakford490 ft
- Panther Creek Township490 ft
- Chandlerville470 ft
- Chandlerville Township460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,460th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Menard Countylowest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Kingfisher Hill620 ft
- Shick Shack 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).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.