Peoria, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

820 ft 250 m730 ft 220 m680 ft 205 m580 ft 180 m490 ft 150 m440 ft 135 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
City area: Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Peoria sits at about 650 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

650 ft 195 m

most residents: 520–770 ft

Lowest

440 ft 135 m

on the southwest side

Highest

820 ft 250 m

on the north side

Average

650 ft 200 m

all land inside city limits

Peoria spans about 380 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	650 ft195 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side	820 ft250 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side	440 ft135 m
Town center USGS map point for Peoria	500 ft155 m
Airport (PIA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi west of the city limits	661 ft201 m
Average of all land	650 ft200 m

Elevation profile, south to north

11 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Peoria County, Illinois, United States
Population: 111,696 2024 est.
Land area: 48.2 sq mi + 2.6 sq mi water
Density: 2,318 per sq mi
Coordinates: 40.6936° N, 89.5890° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: General Downing - Peoria International (PIA) 661 ft
ZIP codes 11: 61525 61528 61602 61603 61604 61605 61606 61607 61614 61615 61625

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Illinois1,470th highest of 2,872
Towns in Peoria County21st highest of 39

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

The Mound, Tazewell County530 ft
Little Mound490 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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, 440 ft at 40.6596° N, 89.6229° 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.