Palestine, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
470 ft 140 m460 ft 140 m450 ft 140 m450 ft 135 m440 ft 135 m430 ft 130 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
Palestine sits at about 450 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
450 ft 135 m
most residents: 440–450 ft
Lowest
430 ft 130 m
on the northwest side
Highest
450 ft 140 m
on the northwest side
Average
440 ft 135 m
all land inside village limits
Palestine is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 450 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 450 ft140 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 430 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Palestine | 450 ft135 m |
| Airport (RSV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi northwest of the village limits | 461 ft141 m |
| Average of all land | 440 ft135 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Crawford County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,207 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,530 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0037° N, 87.6128° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Crawford County (RSV) 461 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62451
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Merom, IN550 ft
- Robinson530 ft
- Robinson Township530 ft
- New Lebanon, IN510 ft
- Flat Rock500 ft
- Gill Township, IN500 ft
- Montgomery Township, Crawford County490 ft
- Hutsonville Township490 ft
- Hutsonville450 ft
- Lamotte Township450 ft
- Palestine450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,647th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Crawford Countylowest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bristol Hill560 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.