Blairstown, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
890 ft 270 m870 ft 265 m860 ft 265 m850 ft 260 m830 ft 250 m820 ft 250 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
Blairstown sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 830–860 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the north side
Highest
890 ft 270 m
on the south side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Blairstown spans about 70 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 890 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 820 ft250 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Blairstown | 840 ft255 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Benton County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 705 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,421 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.9094° N, 92.0843° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Cedar River → Iowa River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 52209
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Van Horne950 ft
- Luzerne900 ft
- Keystone890 ft
- Newhall880 ft
- Blairstown850 ft
- Belle Plaine840 ft
- Watkins820 ft
- Norway820 ft
- High Amana780 ft
- West Amana750 ft
- Marengo740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa782nd highest of 1,026
- Towns in Benton County9th highest of 15
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.