Estherville, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,470 ft 450 m1,410 ft 430 m1,390 ft 425 m1,330 ft 405 m1,280 ft 390 m1,250 ft 380 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
Estherville sits at about 1,320 ft (400 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,320 ft 400 m
most residents: 1,290–1,370 ft
Lowest
1,250 ft 380 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,470 ft 450 m
on the west side
Average
1,320 ft 405 m
all land inside city limits
Estherville spans about 220 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 | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,470 ft450 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Estherville | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Airport (EST) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.7 mi east of the city limits | 1,319 ft402 m |
| Average of all land | 1,320 ft405 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Emmet County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 5,796 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.4 sq mi
- Density
- 1,076 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.4016° N, 94.8328° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Des Moines River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Estherville Municipal (EST) 1,319 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 51334
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Superior1,500 ft
- Terril1,430 ft
- Petersburg Township, MN1,370 ft
- Lake Fremont Township, MN1,340 ft
- Dunnell, MN1,320 ft
- Estherville1,320 ft
- Gruver1,300 ft
- Dolliver1,290 ft
- Wallingford1,270 ft
- Lake Belt Township, MN1,260 ft
- Graettinger1,250 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa95th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Emmet Countyhighest of 6
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.