Sims, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
430 ft 130 m420 ft 130 m420 ft 130 m410 ft 125 m400 ft 125 m400 ft 120 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sims sits at about 420 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
420 ft 130 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
400 ft 120 m
on the southwest side
Highest
430 ft 130 m
on the north side
Average
420 ft 125 m
all land inside village limits
Sims spans about 30 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 | 420 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 430 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 400 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sims | 410 ft125 m |
| Airport (FWC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.2 mi east of the village limits | 434 ft132 m |
| Average of all land | 420 ft125 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Wayne County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 169 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 143 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3603° N, 88.5306° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Skillet Fork → Little Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Fairfield Municipal (FWC) 434 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62886
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lamard Township450 ft
- Jeffersonville450 ft
- Four Mile Township450 ft
- Big Mound Township450 ft
- Keenes450 ft
- Berry Township450 ft
- Hickory Hill Township440 ft
- Wayne City430 ft
- Orel Township430 ft
- Sims420 ft
- Arrington Township420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,744th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Wayne County25th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lowry Hill590 ft
- Little Potatoe Hill470 ft
- Potatoe Hill470 ft
- Linder Hill430 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.