Pulaski County, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
520 ft 155 m460 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m380 ft 115 m320 ft 100 m290 ft 90 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pulaski County averages about 360 ft (110 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 290 ft on the south side to 520 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
360 ft 110 m
all land inside the county
Highest
520 ft 155 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
290 ft 90 m
on the south side
Pulaski County spans about 230 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 360 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 520 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 290 ft90 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
17 mi south to north through Mounds.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Illinois, United States
- Population
- 4,879 2024 est.
- Land area
- 199.3 sq mi + 3.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 24 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Coastal Plain 77%, Interior Low Plateaus 22%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Union County500 ft
- Johnson County500 ft
- Alexander County390 ft
- Massac County390 ft
- McCracken County, KY380 ft
- Ballard County, KY380 ft
- Pulaski County360 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Illinoislowest of 102
- Counties in the United States2,531st highest of 3,151
All 7 towns in Pulaski County by typical elevation
- New Grand Chain390 ft
- Olmsted380 ft
- Karnak340 ft
- Pulaski340 ft
- Ullin340 ft
- Mounds320 ft
- Mound City320 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.