Chillicothe, OH Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

920 ft 280 m840 ft 255 m800 ft 245 m720 ft 220 m640 ft 195 m600 ft 180 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.
City area: Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Chillicothe sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

640 ft 195 m

most residents: 610–840 ft

Lowest

600 ft 180 m

on the northeast side

Highest

920 ft 280 m

on the northwest side

Average

690 ft 210 m

all land inside city limits

Chillicothe spans about 320 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	640 ft195 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side	920 ft280 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side	600 ft180 m
Town center USGS map point for Chillicothe	630 ft195 m
Airport (RZT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.2 mi north of the city limits	725 ft221 m
Average of all land	690 ft210 m

Elevation profile, west to east

3.7 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Ross County, Ohio, United States
Population: 21,769 2024 est.
Land area: 10.5 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
Density: 2,073 per sq mi
Coordinates: 39.3331° N, 82.9824° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Scioto River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Ross County (RZT) 725 ft
ZIP codes 1: 45601

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Ohio2,404th highest of 2,572
Towns in Ross County25th highest of 27

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Rocky Knob1,300 ft
Rock Garden Hill1,280 ft
Mount Logan1,270 ft
Bunker Hill1,250 ft
Mount Ives1,230 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, 590 ft at 39.3265° N, 82.9471° 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.