Curlew, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,260 ft 385 m1,250 ft 380 m1,240 ft 380 m1,230 ft 375 m1,220 ft 370 m1,210 ft 370 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
Curlew sits at about 1,240 ft (375 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside city limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,240 ft 375 m
few residents
Lowest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,260 ft 385 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,240 ft 375 m
all land inside city limits
Curlew spans about 50 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,240 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Curlew | 1,240 ft380 m |
| Airport (EGQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.2 mi north of the city limits | 1,206 ft368 m |
| Average of all land | 1,240 ft375 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Palo Alto County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 38 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 51 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9789° N, 94.7411° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Des Moines River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Emmetsburg Municipal (EGQ) 1,206 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 50527
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa187th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Palo Alto County5th highest of 9
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the city limits; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.