Carroll County, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,560 ft 475 m1,430 ft 435 m1,360 ft 415 m1,230 ft 375 m1,100 ft 335 m1,040 ft 315 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Carroll County averages about 1,290 ft (395 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,040 ft on the east side to 1,560 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
1,290 ft 395 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,560 ft 475 m
on the west side
Lowest
1,040 ft 315 m
on the east side
Carroll County spans about 520 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 1,040 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Carroll.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Iowa, United States
- Population
- 20,407 2024 est.
- Land area
- 569.5 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 36 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Audubon County1,370 ft
- Crawford County1,350 ft
- Sac County1,310 ft
- Carroll County1,290 ft
- Guthrie County1,200 ft
- Calhoun County1,190 ft
- Greene County1,100 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Iowa16th highest of 99
- Counties in the United States1,012th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Moses1,370 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.