Valley City, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
600 ft 180 m550 ft 170 m530 ft 160 m490 ft 150 m450 ft 135 m430 ft 130 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
Valley City sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside village limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
440 ft 135 m
few residents
Lowest
430 ft 130 m
on the east side
Highest
600 ft 180 m
on the northwest side
Average
460 ft 140 m
all land inside village limits
Valley City spans about 170 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 600 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 430 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Valley City | 470 ft145 m |
| Airport (PPQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi southwest of the village limits | 710 ft216 m |
| Average of all land | 460 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Pike County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 15 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 56 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7070° N, 90.6526° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Pittsfield Penstone Municipal (PPQ) 710 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 62340
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Griggsville680 ft
- Griggsville Township680 ft
- Detroit640 ft
- Detroit Township630 ft
- Perry Township590 ft
- Flint Township560 ft
- Bluffs470 ft
- Florence470 ft
- Oxville470 ft
- Naples440 ft
- Valley City440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,692nd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Pike Countylowest of 42
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Calvert Hill740 ft
- Pilot Knob, Pike County740 ft
- Browns Mound, Scott County630 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the village limits; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.