Ridgway, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
400 ft 120 m390 ft 120 m380 ft 115 m370 ft 115 m360 ft 110 m360 ft 110 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
Ridgway sits at about 380 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
380 ft 115 m
most residents: 370–380 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the northwest side
Highest
400 ft 120 m
on the southeast side
Average
370 ft 115 m
all land inside village limits
Ridgway spans about 40 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 | 380 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 400 ft120 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 360 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ridgway | 370 ft115 m |
| Average of all land | 370 ft115 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 805 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 915 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7992° N, 88.2612° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 62979
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Shawneetown400 ft
- Gold Hill Township400 ft
- Equality400 ft
- Omaha Township390 ft
- Equality Township390 ft
- Omaha380 ft
- Asbury Township380 ft
- North Fork Township380 ft
- Ridgway380 ft
- Ridgway Township380 ft
- Junction360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,842nd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Gallatin County13th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cave Hill930 ft
- High Knob920 ft
- Gold Hill690 ft
- Maher Hill610 ft
- Colbert Hill580 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. All public domain.