Springfield, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
650 ft 195 m610 ft 185 m590 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m520 ft 160 m500 ft 155 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Springfield sits at about 600 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
600 ft 180 m
most residents: 580–610 ft
Lowest
500 ft 155 m
on the north side
Highest
650 ft 195 m
on the southwest side
Average
590 ft 180 m
all land inside city limits
Springfield 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 | 600 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 650 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 500 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Springfield | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (SPI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 598 ft182 m |
| Average of all land | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
14 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 112,949 2024 est.
- Land area
- 61.3 sq mi + 6.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,842 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8017° N, 89.6437° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Sangamon River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Abraham Lincoln Capital (SPI) 598 ft
- ZIP codes 9
- 62629 62701 62702 62703 62704 62706 62707 62711 62712
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Southern View610 ft
- Jerome600 ft
- Leland Grove600 ft
- Woodside Township600 ft
- Capital Township600 ft
- Springfield600 ft
- Grandview600 ft
- Springfield Township590 ft
- Gardner Township590 ft
- Fancy Creek Township580 ft
- Clear Lake Township570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,986th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Sangamon County31st highest of 51
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elkhart Hill771 ft
- Walnut Hill650 ft
- Cotton Hill610 ft
- Yellow Hammer Knob610 ft
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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.