Shelbyville, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

670 ft 205 m640 ft 195 m620 ft 190 m590 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m540 ft 165 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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

Shelbyville sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

640 ft 195 m

most residents: 610–660 ft

Lowest

540 ft 165 m

near the middle

Highest

670 ft 205 m

on the east side

Average

630 ft 190 m

all land inside city limits

Shelbyville spans about 130 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	640 ft195 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side	670 ft205 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle	540 ft165 m
Town center USGS map point for Shelbyville	640 ft195 m
Airport (2H0) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi west of the city limits	619 ft189 m
Average of all land	630 ft190 m

Elevation profile, south to north

2.2 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Shelby County, Illinois, United States
Population: 4,540 2024 est.
Land area: 4.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
Density: 1,090 per sq mi
Coordinates: 39.4064° N, 88.7901° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Kaskaskia River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Shelby County (2H0) 619 ft
ZIP codes 1: 62565

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

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Illinois1,562nd highest of 2,872
Towns in Shelby County20th highest of 37

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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.