Paderborn, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
500 ft 155 m490 ft 150 m480 ft 150 m470 ft 145 m460 ft 140 m460 ft 140 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Paderborn sits at about 480 ft (150 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
480 ft 150 m
few residents
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the southwest side
Highest
500 ft 155 m
on the northwest side
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Paderborn spans about 40 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 480 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 500 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 460 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Paderborn | 500 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 35 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 233 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3603° N, 90.0426° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 62298
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Waterloo650 ft
- Millstadt610 ft
- Millstadt Township600 ft
- Floraville520 ft
- Freeburg Township510 ft
- Freeburg500 ft
- Paderborn480 ft
- Prairie Du Long Township480 ft
- Smithton Township470 ft
- Smithton470 ft
- Hecker470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,492nd highest of 2,872
- Towns in St. Clair County15th highest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Turkey Hill640 ft
- Haubers Hill550 ft
- Dutch Hill, St. Clair County490 ft
- Point Lookout480 ft
- Oklahoma Hill420 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (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.
- Paderborn is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.