Winchester, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
570 ft 175 m540 ft 165 m530 ft 160 m510 ft 155 m480 ft 145 m470 ft 145 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Winchester sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 520–550 ft
Lowest
470 ft 145 m
on the south side
Highest
570 ft 175 m
on the northeast side
Average
530 ft 160 m
all land inside city limits
Winchester 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 570 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 470 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Winchester | 540 ft165 m |
| Average of all land | 530 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Scott County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,510 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,337 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6298° N, 90.4562° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 62694
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Manchester680 ft
- Montezuma Township650 ft
- Alsey630 ft
- Lynnville620 ft
- Merritt600 ft
- Riggston600 ft
- Glasgow590 ft
- Exeter570 ft
- Winchester540 ft
- Florence470 ft
- Oxville470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,281st highest of 2,872
- Towns in Scott County7th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Calvert Hill740 ft
- Pilot Knob, Pike County740 ft
- The Mound, Morgan County720 ft
- Allison Mound690 ft
- Browns Mound, Scott County630 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).
- 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.