Arion, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,320 ft 405 m1,270 ft 385 m1,240 ft 380 m1,190 ft 365 m1,140 ft 345 m1,110 ft 340 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
Arion sits at about 1,150 ft (350 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,150 ft 350 m
most residents: 1,140–1,190 ft
Lowest
1,110 ft 340 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,320 ft 405 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,160 ft 355 m
all land inside city limits
Arion spans about 210 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 | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,320 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Arion | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Airport (DNS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.5 mi northeast of the city limits | 1,274 ft388 m |
| Average of all land | 1,160 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Crawford County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 99 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 200 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.9492° N, 95.4636° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Boyer River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Denison Municipal (DNS) 1,274 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 51520
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Earling1,360 ft
- Manilla1,350 ft
- Ricketts1,320 ft
- Defiance1,280 ft
- Charter Oak1,280 ft
- Denison1,260 ft
- Deloit1,250 ft
- Buck Grove1,250 ft
- Arion1,150 ft
- Dunlap1,140 ft
- Dow City1,140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa333rd highest of 1,026
- Towns in Crawford County12th highest of 13
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, 1,110 ft at 41.9438° N, 95.4590° 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.