Athelstan, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m1,150 ft 350 m1,140 ft 345 m1,110 ft 340 m1,090 ft 330 m1,070 ft 325 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Athelstan sits at about 1,130 ft (345 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,130 ft 345 m
few residents
Lowest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the east side
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,130 ft 345 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Athelstan spans about 110 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Athelstan | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Average of all land | 1,130 ft345 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Taylor County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 6 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 46 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5722° N, 94.5422° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 50836
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bedford1,140 ft
- Redding1,140 ft
- Blockton1,130 ft
- Athelstan1,130 ft
- Delphos1,120 ft
- Irena, MO1,120 ft
- Independence Township, Nodaway County, MO1,110 ft
- Maloy1,110 ft
- Grant City, MO1,080 ft
- Sheridan, MO1,060 ft
- Parnell, MO1,050 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa380th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Taylor Countylowest of 9
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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.
- Athelstan is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.