Ripley, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

580 ft 175 m540 ft 165 m530 ft 160 m490 ft 150 m460 ft 140 m440 ft 135 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Ripley sits at about 550 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

550 ft 170 m

most residents: 500–570 ft

Lowest

440 ft 135 m

on the east side

Highest

580 ft 175 m

on the southwest side

Average

510 ft 155 m

all land inside village limits

Ripley spans about 140 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	550 ft170 m
Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side	580 ft175 m
Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side	440 ft135 m
Town center USGS map point for Ripley	550 ft165 m
Airport (I63) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.9 mi west of the village limits	734 ft224 m
Average of all land	510 ft155 m

Elevation profile, south to north

0.6 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Village in Brown County, Illinois, United States
Population: 51 2024 est.
Land area: 0.4 sq mi
Density: 135 per sq mi
Coordinates: 40.0228° N, 90.6387° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Mount Sterling Municipal (I63) 734 ft
ZIP codes 1: 62353

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

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Illinois2,224th highest of 2,872
Towns in Brown Countylowest of 13

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.