Elevation of Plainfield, Illinois, United States of America

Plainfield, Illinois, United States of America is 187 m (614 ft) above sea level.

Plainfield's height from sea level is 187 metres, or 614 feet. GeoNames reads 189 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 187 m.

Ground within 4 km

181 m – 203 m

Mean 189 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 22 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

36th of 42

among the towns of Illinois, and 407th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

10.1 km to the E, at 194 m, 7 m higher.

Cross-section through Plainfield

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 Plainfield; the vertical scale is the same on both.

227167WE25.1 km
West to east: from 201 m at 13 km west to 194 m at 13 km east.
227167NS25.1 km
North to south: from 216 m at 13 km north to 180 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Plainfield, 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 Plainfield

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Romeoville 10.1 kmE 194 m (636 ft) +7 m
Joliet 14.3 kmSE 165 m (541 ft) −22 m
Bolingbrook 14.5 kmNE 214 m (702 ft) +27 m
Aurora 18.8 kmNW 210 m (689 ft) +23 m
Naperville 19.5 kmN 221 m (725 ft) +34 m

Peaks and passes near Plainfield

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

Where Plainfield is

Latitude 41.615915, longitude -88.204069. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Plainfield elevation: 187 m (614 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 Plainfield'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 189 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.