Parkersburg, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
490 ft 150 m480 ft 145 m470 ft 145 m460 ft 140 m440 ft 135 m430 ft 135 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
Parkersburg sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 145 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
430 ft 130 m
on the northwest side
Highest
490 ft 150 m
on the northeast side
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside village limits
Parkersburg spans about 60 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 490 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 430 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Parkersburg | 480 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Richland County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 186 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 225 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.5898° N, 88.0567° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Little Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 62452
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Calhoun530 ft
- Claremont Township510 ft
- West Salem510 ft
- Claremont510 ft
- Olney480 ft
- Olney Township480 ft
- Parkersburg480 ft
- Madison Township480 ft
- Bonpas Township470 ft
- Bone Gap470 ft
- Decker Township440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,502nd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Richland County8th highest of 15
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Red Hill631 ft
- Turkey Ridge400 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.