Elevation of Joliet, Illinois, United States of America

Joliet, Illinois, United States of America is 165 m (541 ft) above sea level.

Joliet's height from sea level is 165 metres, or 541 feet. GeoNames reads 167 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 165 m.

Ground within 4 km

159 m – 206 m

Mean 186 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 47 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

40th of 42

among the towns of Illinois, and 452nd of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Romeoville

13.6 km to the N, at 194 m, 29 m higher.

Cross-section through Joliet

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 Joliet; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 188 m at 13 km west to 207 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 190 m at 13 km north to 208 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Joliet, 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 Joliet

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Romeoville	13.6 km	N	194 m (636 ft)	+29 m
Plainfield	14.3 km	NW	187 m (614 ft)	+22 m
Bolingbrook	19.3 km	N	214 m (702 ft)	+49 m
Orland Park	22.3 km	NE	217 m (712 ft)	+52 m
Tinley Park	25.3 km	E	213 m (699 ft)	+48 m

Where Joliet is

Latitude 41.525031, longitude -88.0817251. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Joliet'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 167 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.