Bancroft, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,190 ft 360 m1,180 ft 360 m1,170 ft 360 m1,160 ft 355 m1,150 ft 350 m1,150 ft 350 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
Bancroft sits at about 1,170 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,170 ft 355 m
most residents: 1,160–1,180 ft
Lowest
1,150 ft 350 m
on the east side
Highest
1,190 ft 360 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,170 ft 355 m
all land inside city limits
Bancroft spans about 40 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 | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bancroft | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Average of all land | 1,170 ft355 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kossuth County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 677 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,200 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.2927° N, 94.2180° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- East Fork Des Moines River → Des Moines River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 50517
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa302nd highest of 1,026
- Towns in Kossuth County10th highest of 16
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).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.