Elevation of Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States of America

Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States of America is 216 m (709 ft) above sea level.

Arlington Heights's height from sea level is 216 metres, or 709 feet. GeoNames reads 219 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 200 m.

Ground within 4 km

202 m – 226 m

Mean 215 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 24 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 42

among the towns of Illinois, and 332nd of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

4.3 km to the SE, at 206 m, 10 m lower.

Cross-section through Arlington Heights

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Arlington Heights; the vertical scale is the same on both.

255195WE25 km
West to east: from 250 m at 13 km west to 210 m at 13 km east.
255195NS25 km
North to south: from 221 m at 13 km north to 214 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Arlington Heights, 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 Arlington Heights

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Mount Prospect 4.3 kmSE 206 m (676 ft) −10 m
Palatine 5.1 kmNW 232 m (761 ft) +16 m
Buffalo Grove 8.8 kmN 211 m (692 ft) −5 m
Des Plaines 10.1 kmSE 197 m (646 ft) −19 m
Schaumburg 10.5 kmSW 242 m (794 ft) +26 m

Where Arlington Heights is

Latitude 42.0883603, longitude -87.9806265. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Arlington Heights elevation: 216 m (709 ft) above sea level

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Arlington Heights'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 219 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.