Elgin, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
940 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m880 ft 270 m840 ft 260 m810 ft 245 m790 ft 240 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
Elgin sits at about 830 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
830 ft 250 m
most residents: 800–860 ft
Lowest
790 ft 240 m
on the southeast side
Highest
940 ft 285 m
on the southwest side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside city limits
Elgin spans about 150 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 | 830 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 940 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 790 ft240 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elgin | 810 ft250 m |
| Airport (3Y2) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.4 mi west of the city limits | 1,232 ft376 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Fayette County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 676 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 997 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9575° N, 91.6307° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Turkey River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- George L Scott Municipal (3Y2) 1,232 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 52141
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Castalia1,220 ft
- Postville1,180 ft
- West Union1,170 ft
- Luana1,100 ft
- Fayette1,010 ft
- Farmersburg930 ft
- St. Olaf910 ft
- Wadena870 ft
- Clermont860 ft
- Elgin830 ft
- Volga820 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa812th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Fayette Countylowest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Corn Hill1,200 ft
- Bear Hill1,180 ft
- Chicken Ridge1,180 ft
- Pilot Knob, Clayton County1,080 ft
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.