Tuscola, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
670 ft 205 m660 ft 205 m660 ft 200 m650 ft 200 m640 ft 195 m640 ft 195 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Tuscola sits at about 650 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
650 ft 200 m
most residents: 650–660 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the southeast side
Highest
670 ft 205 m
on the northeast side
Average
650 ft 200 m
all land inside city limits
Tuscola 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 | 650 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 670 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 640 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tuscola | 660 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft200 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Douglas County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 4,658 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,580 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7992° N, 88.2831° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Embarras River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 61953
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pesotum710 ft
- Pesotum Township710 ft
- Arcola Township670 ft
- Garrett670 ft
- Garrett Township670 ft
- Camargo670 ft
- Bourbon Township660 ft
- Tuscola650 ft
- Tuscola Township650 ft
- Camargo Township650 ft
- Villa Grove650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,368th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Douglas County10th highest of 17
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).
- 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, 640 ft at 39.7921° N, 88.2662° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.