Park Forest, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
780 ft 235 m750 ft 230 m740 ft 225 m720 ft 220 m690 ft 210 m680 ft 210 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Park Forest sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 700–730 ft
Lowest
680 ft 210 m
on the east side
Highest
780 ft 235 m
on the southwest side
Average
710 ft 220 m
all land inside village limits
Park Forest spans about 100 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 780 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 680 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Park Forest | 710 ft220 m |
| Airport (C56) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.1 mi south of the village limits | 790 ft241 m |
| Average of all land | 710 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Cook and Will counties, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 21,016 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.0 sq mi
- Density
- 4,221 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4914° N, 87.6745° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Bult Field (C56) 790 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 60466
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- University Park770 ft
- Richton Park730 ft
- South Chicago Heights720 ft
- Park Forest710 ft
- Steger710 ft
- Rich Township710 ft
- Matteson700 ft
- Olympia Fields700 ft
- Flossmoor680 ft
- Chicago Heights660 ft
- Bloom Township650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois768th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Cook County20th highest of 144
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 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.