Shorewood, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
670 ft 205 m640 ft 195 m620 ft 190 m590 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m550 ft 170 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Shorewood sits at about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
610 ft 185 m
most residents: 580–620 ft
Lowest
550 ft 170 m
on the southwest side
Highest
670 ft 205 m
on the west side
Average
610 ft 185 m
all land inside village limits
Shorewood spans about 120 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 | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 670 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 550 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shorewood | 580 ft175 m |
| Airport (LOT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.6 mi northeast of the village limits | 679 ft207 m |
| Average of all land | 610 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Will County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 18,522 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,284 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5200° N, 88.2017° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lewis University (LOT) 679 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 60404
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Na-Au-Say Township650 ft
- Plainfield630 ft
- Crest Hill630 ft
- Seward Township630 ft
- Plainfield Township620 ft
- Sunnyland620 ft
- Shorewood610 ft
- Troy Township610 ft
- Minooka610 ft
- Crystal Lawns610 ft
- Rockdale580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,842nd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Will County53rd highest of 71
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Waubonsie Hill710 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.