Wheeler, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m580 ft 175 m580 ft 175 m570 ft 175 m560 ft 170 m560 ft 170 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
Wheeler sits at about 580 ft (175 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
580 ft 175 m
most residents: 570–580 ft
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the south side
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on the southwest side
Average
580 ft 175 m
all land inside village limits
Wheeler 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 | 580 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 560 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wheeler | 570 ft175 m |
| Average of all land | 580 ft175 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Jasper County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 97 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 168 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0467° N, 88.3164° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Little Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 62479
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Montrose600 ft
- St. Francis Township590 ft
- Dieterich590 ft
- Bishop Township590 ft
- Grove Township580 ft
- Wheeler580 ft
- North Muddy Township570 ft
- Rose Hill560 ft
- Lucas Township550 ft
- Wade Township530 ft
- Newton530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,125th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Jasper County3rd highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Jordan Hill560 ft
- Turkey Point500 ft
- Indian Point490 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.