Elevation of Bloomington, Illinois, United States of America

Bloomington, Illinois, United States of America is 247 m (810 ft) above sea level.

Bloomington's height from sea level is 247 metres, or 810 feet. GeoNames reads 246 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 243 m.

Ground within 5 km

228 m – 270 m

Mean 249 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 42 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 42

among the towns of Illinois, and 271st of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

3.3 km to the N, at 246 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Bloomington

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bloomington; the vertical scale is the same on both.

278217WE25.3 km
West to east: from 241 m at 13 km west to 253 m at 13 km east.
278217NS25.3 km
North to south: from 231 m at 13 km north to 239 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Bloomington, 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 Bloomington

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Normal 3.3 kmN 246 m (807 ft) −1 m

Peaks and passes near Bloomington

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

Where Bloomington is

Latitude 40.4842027, longitude -88.9936873. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bloomington elevation: 247 m (810 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 Bloomington'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 246 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.