Center Junction, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m980 ft 300 m960 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m880 ft 270 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Center Junction sits at about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
920 ft 280 m
most residents: 900–960 ft
Lowest
880 ft 270 m
on the north side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the southeast side
Average
920 ft 280 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Center Junction spans about 130 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 880 ft270 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Center Junction | 900 ft275 m |
| Airport (MXO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.6 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 833 ft254 m |
| Average of all land | 920 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Jones County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 100 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 136 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1161° N, 91.0871° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Maquoketa River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Monticello Regional (MXO) 833 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 52212
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Center Junction920 ft
- Onslow920 ft
- Cascade850 ft
- Monticello830 ft
- Anamosa830 ft
- Wyoming820 ft
- Morley800 ft
- Olin750 ft
- Monmouth750 ft
- Oxford Junction730 ft
- Baldwin730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa697th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Jones Countyhighest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chimney Rock970 ft
- Goose Rock930 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Center Junction is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.