Shawneetown, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

440 ft 135 m420 ft 130 m410 ft 125 m400 ft 120 m380 ft 115 m370 ft 110 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.
City area: Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Shawneetown sits at about 400 ft (125 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

400 ft 125 m

most residents: 380–420 ft

Lowest

370 ft 110 m

on the south side

Highest

440 ft 135 m

on the northwest side

Average

400 ft 120 m

all land inside city limits

Shawneetown spans about 70 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	400 ft125 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side	440 ft135 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side	370 ft110 m
Town center USGS map point for Shawneetown	400 ft120 m
Average of all land	400 ft120 m

Elevation profile, south to north

1.1 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States
Population: 998 2024 est.
Land area: 0.7 sq mi
Density: 1,360 per sq mi
Coordinates: 37.7131° N, 88.1867° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Interior Low Plateaus
Drains to: Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 62984

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Illinois2,792nd highest of 2,872
Towns in Gallatin County2nd highest of 17

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

High Knob920 ft
Gold Hill690 ft
Tucker Hill650 ft
Maher Hill610 ft
Colbert Hill580 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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.