West Union, IL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

520 ft 160 m500 ft 155 m490 ft 150 m480 ft 145 m460 ft 140 m460 ft 140 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
Area: Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

West Union sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

480 ft 145 m

most residents: 460–510 ft

Lowest

460 ft 140 m

on the northeast side

Highest

520 ft 160 m

on the northwest side

Average

480 ft 145 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

West Union spans about 60 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	480 ft145 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side	520 ft160 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side	460 ft140 m
Town center USGS map point for West Union	480 ft145 m
Average of all land	480 ft145 m

Elevation profile, west to east

1.2 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Clark County, Illinois, United States
Population: 271 2020 Census
Land area: 1.8 sq mi
Density: 150 per sq mi
Coordinates: 39.2159° N, 87.6661° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 62477

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Illinois2,516th highest of 2,872
Towns in Clark County19th highest of 20

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Lost Hill590 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
West Union is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.