Clarence, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
860 ft 260 m840 ft 255 m840 ft 255 m820 ft 250 m810 ft 245 m800 ft 245 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
Clarence sits at about 840 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
840 ft 255 m
most residents: 830–850 ft
Lowest
800 ft 245 m
on the west side
Highest
860 ft 260 m
on the south side
Average
840 ft 255 m
all land inside city limits
Clarence spans about 60 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 | 840 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 860 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 800 ft245 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Clarence | 830 ft255 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cedar County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 991 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,302 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.8889° N, 91.0565° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wapsipinicon River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 52216
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mechanicsville900 ft
- Stanwood840 ft
- Clarence840 ft
- Wyoming820 ft
- Tipton810 ft
- Olin750 ft
- Bennett750 ft
- Lowden740 ft
- Oxford Junction730 ft
- Toronto720 ft
- Wheatland700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa793rd highest of 1,026
- Towns in Cedar County3rd highest of 10
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.