Palmer, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
620 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m610 ft 185 m600 ft 180 m580 ft 180 m580 ft 175 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
Palmer sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 610–620 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the northwest side
Highest
620 ft 190 m
on the north side
Average
610 ft 185 m
all land inside village limits
Palmer 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 Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 620 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 580 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Palmer | 620 ft190 m |
| Airport (TAZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi northeast of the village limits | 622 ft190 m |
| Average of all land | 610 ft185 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Christian County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 211 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 212 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4578° N, 89.4040° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- South Fork Sangamon River → Sangamon River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Taylorville Municipal (TAZ) 622 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62556
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Greenwood Township, Christian County640 ft
- King Township630 ft
- Morrisonville630 ft
- Ricks Township630 ft
- Palmer620 ft
- Bear Creek Township620 ft
- Taylorville610 ft
- Taylorville Township610 ft
- Johnson Township610 ft
- Langleyville600 ft
- Jeisyville600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,782nd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Christian County13th highest of 31
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, 580 ft at 39.4640° N, 89.4165° 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.