Pittsburg, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
530 ft 160 m510 ft 155 m500 ft 150 m480 ft 145 m460 ft 140 m450 ft 135 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
Pittsburg 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
most residents: 460–500 ft
Lowest
450 ft 135 m
on the south side
Highest
530 ft 160 m
on the northeast side
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside village limits
Pittsburg spans about 80 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 | 530 ft160 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 450 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pittsburg | 460 ft140 m |
| Airport (MWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.1 mi west of the village limits | 472 ft144 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Williamson County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 561 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 272 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7770° N, 88.8495° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Crab Orchard Creek → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois (MWA) 472 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62974
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Crab Orchard510 ft
- Spillertown500 ft
- Pittsburg480 ft
- Energy460 ft
- Whiteash440 ft
- Marion440 ft
- Johnston City430 ft
- Herrin420 ft
- Frankfort Township, Franklin County410 ft
- West Frankfort400 ft
- Freeman Spur390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,518th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Williamson County4th highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sand Hill570 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.