Shirley, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
780 ft 235 m770 ft 235 m770 ft 235 m760 ft 230 m750 ft 230 m750 ft 225 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Shirley sits at about 770 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
770 ft 235 m
most residents: 760–770 ft
Lowest
750 ft 225 m
on the southwest side
Highest
770 ft 235 m
on the northwest side
Average
760 ft 230 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Shirley is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 770 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 770 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 750 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shirley | 770 ft235 m |
| Airport (BMI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.9 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 871 ft265 m |
| Average of all land | 760 ft230 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in McLean County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 135 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,534 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4073° N, 89.0626° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Sugar Creek → Sangamon River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Central Il Regional/Bloomington-Normal (BMI) 871 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 61772
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bloomington830 ft
- Normal800 ft
- Twin Grove800 ft
- Dry Grove Township800 ft
- Bloomington Township790 ft
- Dale Township770 ft
- Shirley770 ft
- Randolph Township750 ft
- Heyworth750 ft
- Funks Grove Township700 ft
- Allin Township680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois436th highest of 2,872
- Towns in McLean County33rd highest of 53
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Shirley is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.