Kingston, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
730 ft 225 m680 ft 210 m660 ft 200 m600 ft 185 m550 ft 170 m520 ft 160 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
Kingston sits at about 550 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 165 m
most residents: 530–650 ft
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the southeast side
Highest
740 ft 225 m
on the west side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Kingston 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 | 550 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 740 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 520 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kingston | 550 ft170 m |
| Airport (BRL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi south of the CDP boundary | 699 ft213 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Des Moines County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 81 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 46 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9775° N, 91.0404° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Southeast Iowa Regional (BRL) 699 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 52637
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mediapolis770 ft
- Sperry750 ft
- Rozetta Township, IL710 ft
- Oquawka Township, IL560 ft
- Gladstone Township, IL560 ft
- Oquawka, IL560 ft
- Keithsburg Township, IL550 ft
- Gladstone, IL550 ft
- Keithsburg, IL550 ft
- Kingston550 ft
- Oakville540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa1,023rd highest of 1,026
- Towns in Des Moines Countylowest of 11
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 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.
- Kingston 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.