Ainsworth, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
750 ft 230 m730 ft 220 m720 ft 220 m700 ft 215 m680 ft 205 m670 ft 205 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ainsworth sits at about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
720 ft 220 m
most residents: 720–740 ft
Lowest
670 ft 205 m
on the east side
Highest
750 ft 230 m
on the northwest side
Average
710 ft 215 m
all land inside city limits
Ainsworth spans about 80 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 750 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 670 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ainsworth | 710 ft220 m |
| Airport (AWG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.0 mi west of the city limits | 754 ft230 m |
| Average of all land | 710 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Washington County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 511 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 1,385 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2889° N, 91.5524° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Washington Municipal (AWG) 754 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 52201
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Washington750 ft
- Wayland730 ft
- Crawfordsville730 ft
- Olds730 ft
- Ainsworth720 ft
- Columbus City720 ft
- Cotter710 ft
- Columbus Junction680 ft
- Coppock650 ft
- Conesville610 ft
- Fredonia600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa920th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Washington County6th highest of 9
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 670 ft at 41.2896° N, 91.5487° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.