Durango, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
830 ft 255 m780 ft 240 m760 ft 230 m710 ft 215 m660 ft 200 m640 ft 195 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
Durango sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside city limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
660 ft 200 m
few residents
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the west side
Highest
830 ft 255 m
on the northwest side
Average
700 ft 210 m
all land inside city limits
Durango spans about 190 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 830 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 640 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Durango | 650 ft195 m |
| Airport (DBQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi south of the city limits | 1,076 ft328 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft210 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 15 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 197 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5603° N, 90.7757° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Dubuque Regional (DBQ) 1,076 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 52039
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Balltown1,180 ft
- Centralia1,100 ft
- Peosta1,050 ft
- Rickardsville1,040 ft
- Sherrill970 ft
- Asbury890 ft
- Graf840 ft
- Dubuque800 ft
- East Dubuque, IL730 ft
- Durango660 ft
- Sageville660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa981st highest of 1,026
- Towns in Dubuque County20th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sherrill Mound1,220 ft
- Sugar Loaf1,100 ft
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.