Fertile, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m1,210 ft 370 m1,200 ft 365 m1,180 ft 360 m1,160 ft 355 m1,150 ft 350 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
Fertile sits at about 1,180 ft (360 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,180 ft 360 m
most residents: 1,170–1,190 ft
Lowest
1,150 ft 350 m
on the east side
Highest
1,230 ft 375 m
on the south side
Average
1,190 ft 360 m
all land inside city limits
Fertile spans about 80 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 | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fertile | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Airport (MCW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.9 mi southeast of the city limits | 1,213 ft370 m |
| Average of all land | 1,190 ft360 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Worth County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 300 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 319 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.2644° N, 93.4183° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Shell Rock River → Cedar River → Iowa River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mason City Municipal (MCW) 1,213 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 50434
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lake Mills1,270 ft
- Joice1,260 ft
- Ventura1,250 ft
- Forest City1,250 ft
- Clear Lake1,230 ft
- Leland1,220 ft
- Kensett1,210 ft
- Miller1,210 ft
- Hanlontown1,200 ft
- Manly1,200 ft
- Fertile1,180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa282nd highest of 1,026
- Towns in Worth Countylowest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Knob, Hancock County1,450 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.