Kent, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,270 ft 390 m1,250 ft 380 m1,240 ft 375 m1,210 ft 370 m1,190 ft 360 m1,180 ft 360 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Kent sits at about 1,230 ft (375 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,230 ft 375 m
few residents
Lowest
1,180 ft 360 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,270 ft 385 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,230 ft 375 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Kent spans about 90 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 | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kent | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Airport (CSQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.4 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 1,300 ft396 m |
| Average of all land | 1,230 ft375 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Union County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 37 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 76 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9525° N, 94.4544° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Creston Municipal (CSQ) 1,300 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 50851
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Creston1,300 ft
- Lenox1,290 ft
- Sharpsburg1,280 ft
- Cromwell1,280 ft
- Arispe1,270 ft
- Clearfield1,260 ft
- Kent1,230 ft
- Afton1,220 ft
- Shannon City1,210 ft
- Prescott1,190 ft
- Diagonal1,160 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa198th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Union County5th highest of 8
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Kent is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.