Clarinda, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 355 m1,120 ft 340 m1,090 ft 335 m1,040 ft 315 m990 ft 300 m960 ft 290 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Clarinda sits at about 1,050 ft (320 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,050 ft 320 m
most residents: 1,020–1,110 ft
Lowest
960 ft 290 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the west side
Average
1,030 ft 315 m
all land inside city limits
Clarinda spans about 210 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 | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 960 ft290 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Clarinda | 1,040 ft320 m |
| Airport (ICL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 996 ft304 m |
| Average of all land | 1,030 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Page County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 5,334 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,046 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7419° N, 95.0383° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Nodaway River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Schenck Field (ICL) 996 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 51632
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Market1,220 ft
- College Springs1,130 ft
- Nodaway1,110 ft
- Villisca1,070 ft
- Yorktown1,070 ft
- Clarinda1,050 ft
- Blanchard, MO1,040 ft
- Coin1,030 ft
- Braddyville990 ft
- Blanchard990 ft
- Shambaugh990 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa516th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Page County4th 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.