South Elgin, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 255 m810 ft 245 m790 ft 240 m750 ft 230 m710 ft 215 m690 ft 210 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
South Elgin sits at about 780 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 240 m
most residents: 730–810 ft
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
near the middle
Highest
840 ft 255 m
on the southwest side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside village limits
South Elgin spans about 150 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 | 780 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 840 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, near the middle | 690 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for South Elgin | 710 ft215 m |
| Airport (DPA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.3 mi south of the village limits | 759 ft231 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Kane County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 24,921 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,405 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.9942° N, 88.2923° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Fox River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Dupage (DPA) 759 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 60177
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Plato Township890 ft
- Streamwood810 ft
- Hanover Township810 ft
- Elgin800 ft
- Elgin Township800 ft
- Bartlett790 ft
- Wayne Township780 ft
- South Elgin780 ft
- St. Charles Township770 ft
- St. Charles770 ft
- Wayne760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois362nd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Kane County25th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Johnsons Mound890 ft
- Mount Hoy830 ft
- Blanchard Hill780 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 690 ft at 41.9865° N, 88.2924° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.