Benton, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,140 ft 345 m1,110 ft 340 m1,100 ft 335 m1,070 ft 325 m1,040 ft 315 m1,030 ft 315 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
Benton sits at about 1,070 ft (325 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside city limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,070 ft 325 m
few residents
Lowest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the south side
Highest
1,140 ft 345 m
on the west side
Average
1,070 ft 325 m
all land inside city limits
Benton 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 | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Benton | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Average of all land | 1,070 ft325 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Ringgold County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 40 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 53 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7033° N, 94.3583° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Grand River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 50835
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa482nd highest of 1,026
- Towns in Ringgold Countylowest of 11
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the city limits; 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 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.