Chickasaw County, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,320 ft 400 m1,220 ft 370 m1,170 ft 360 m1,080 ft 330 m980 ft 300 m940 ft 285 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
Chickasaw County averages about 1,130 ft (345 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 940 ft on the southwest side to 1,320 ft on the north side.
Average elevation
1,130 ft 345 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,320 ft 400 m
on the north side
Lowest
940 ft 285 m
on the southwest side
Chickasaw County spans about 380 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 | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the north side | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 940 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
21 mi south to north through New Hampton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Iowa, United States
- Population
- 11,719 2024 est.
- Land area
- 504.3 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 23 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
- Howard County1,250 ft
- Winneshiek County1,140 ft
- Chickasaw County1,130 ft
- Fayette County1,100 ft
- Floyd County1,070 ft
- Bremer County1,010 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Iowa43rd highest of 99
- Counties in the United States1,202nd highest of 3,151
All 9 towns in Chickasaw County by typical elevation
- Alta Vista1,170 ft
- Protivin partly1,160 ft
- New Hampton1,150 ft
- Ionia1,150 ft
- North Washington1,130 ft
- Lawler1,090 ft
- Fredericksburg1,080 ft
- Bassett1,030 ft
- Nashua980 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.