Pontoosuc, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
680 ft 205 m640 ft 195 m620 ft 190 m580 ft 175 m540 ft 165 m520 ft 160 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
Pontoosuc sits at about 530 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
530 ft 160 m
most residents: 530–550 ft
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the west side
Highest
680 ft 205 m
on the southwest side
Average
550 ft 170 m
all land inside village limits
Pontoosuc spans about 160 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 | 530 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 680 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 520 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pontoosuc | 530 ft160 m |
| Airport (BRL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi north of the village limits | 699 ft213 m |
| Average of all land | 550 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Hancock County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 98 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 70 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6289° N, 91.2054° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Southeast Iowa Regional (BRL) 699 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62330
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Appanoose Township670 ft
- Pontoosuc Township660 ft
- Durham Township640 ft
- Dallas City Township620 ft
- Wever, IA560 ft
- Dallas City550 ft
- Fort Madison, IA550 ft
- Lomax Township550 ft
- Lomax550 ft
- Pontoosuc530 ft
- Niota520 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,325th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Hancock County38th highest of 39
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gittings Mound760 ft
- Mount Moriah660 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.