Wheaton, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 245 m780 ft 240 m770 ft 235 m750 ft 230 m720 ft 220 m710 ft 215 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
Wheaton sits at about 760 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
760 ft 230 m
most residents: 740–770 ft
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the west side
Highest
810 ft 245 m
on the northeast side
Average
750 ft 230 m
all land inside city limits
Wheaton spans about 100 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 | 760 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 810 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 710 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wheaton | 760 ft230 m |
| Airport (ORD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northeast of the city limits | 680 ft207 m |
| Average of all land | 750 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in DuPage County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 53,741 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,746 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.8661° N, 88.1070° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Chicago O'hare International (ORD) 680 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 60187 60189
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Glendale Heights780 ft
- Carol Stream770 ft
- West Chicago760 ft
- Milton Township760 ft
- Wheaton760 ft
- Glen Ellyn750 ft
- Winfield750 ft
- Winfield Township740 ft
- Lisle Township730 ft
- Lisle730 ft
- Warrenville720 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois485th highest of 2,872
- Towns in DuPage County11th highest of 39
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Johnsons Mound890 ft
- Mount Hoy830 ft
- Blanchard Hill780 ft
- Waubonsie Hill710 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).
- 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, 710 ft at 41.8690° N, 88.1390° 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.