Lee County, IA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

780 ft 240 m710 ft 215 m670 ft 205 m600 ft 180 m520 ft 160 m480 ft 150 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Lee County averages about 650 ft (200 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 480 ft on the south side to 780 ft on the north side.

Average elevation

650 ft 200 m

all land inside the county

Highest

780 ft 240 m

on the north side

Lowest

480 ft 150 m

on the south side

Lee County spans about 300 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	650 ft200 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the north side	780 ft240 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side	480 ft150 m

Elevation profile, south to north

11 mi south to north through Fort Madison.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Iowa, United States
Population: 32,376 2024 est.
Land area: 517.6 sq mi + 21.3 sq mi water
Density: 63 per sq mi
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Iowa98th highest of 99
Counties in the United States2,132nd highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Bryan Hill690 ft

All 13 towns in Lee County by typical elevation

West Point770 ft
Houghton720 ft
Denmark710 ft
Donnellson700 ft
St. Paul700 ft
Franklin690 ft
Argyle670 ft
Mooar650 ft
Sandusky640 ft
Keokuk610 ft
Wever560 ft
Fort Madison550 ft
Montrose550 ft

How we measure

Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.