Elevation of Elgin, Illinois, United States of America

Elgin, Illinois, United States of America is 229 m (751 ft) above sea level.

Elgin's height from sea level is 229 metres, or 751 feet. GeoNames reads 229 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 227 m.

Ground within 4 km

221 m – 259 m

Mean 240 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 38 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 42

among the towns of Illinois, and 303rd of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Bartlett

9.2 km to the SE, at 251 m, 22 m higher.

Cross-section through Elgin

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Elgin; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 275 m at 13 km west to 249 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 260 m at 13 km north to 234 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Elgin, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Elgin

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bartlett	9.2 km	SE	251 m (823 ft)	+22 m
Hoffman Estates	13.4 km	E	246 m (807 ft)	+17 m
Schaumburg	16.3 km	E	242 m (794 ft)	+13 m
Palatine	21.9 km	E	232 m (761 ft)	+3 m
Crystal Lake	22.9 km	N	281 m (922 ft)	+52 m

Peaks and passes near Elgin

Johnsons Mound, peak at 268 m (879 ft), 22.8 km to the SW — 39 m above the town.
Mount Hoy, peak at 255 m (837 ft), 24.3 km to the S — 26 m above the town.
Blanchard Hill, peak at 235 m (771 ft), 23.9 km to the SE — 6 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Elgin is

Latitude 42.0372487, longitude -88.2811895. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/227_277,Elgin,Illinois,United+States+of+America"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/227_277.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Elgin elevation: 229 m (751 ft) above sea level"></a>

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Elgin's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 229 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.