Carbon, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m1,190 ft 360 m1,170 ft 355 m1,120 ft 345 m1,080 ft 330 m1,060 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Carbon sits at about 1,100 ft (335 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside city limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,100 ft 335 m
few residents
Lowest
1,060 ft 325 m
on the west side
Highest
1,230 ft 375 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,110 ft 340 m
all land inside city limits
Carbon spans about 170 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 | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Carbon | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Average of all land | 1,110 ft340 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Adams County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 32 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 43 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0500° N, 94.8233° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Nodaway River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 50839
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lenox1,290 ft
- Cumberland1,280 ft
- Massena1,270 ft
- Bridgewater1,240 ft
- Prescott1,190 ft
- Stanton1,180 ft
- Corning1,160 ft
- Grant1,130 ft
- Nodaway1,110 ft
- Carbon1,100 ft
- Villisca1,070 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa438th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Adams Countylowest of 4
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.