Lisbon, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
920 ft 280 m880 ft 265 m860 ft 260 m820 ft 250 m780 ft 240 m760 ft 230 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
Lisbon sits at about 860 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 265 m
most residents: 850–880 ft
Lowest
760 ft 230 m
on the southwest side
Highest
910 ft 280 m
on the south side
Average
860 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Lisbon spans about 150 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 | 860 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 910 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 760 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lisbon | 860 ft265 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Linn County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 2,238 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,055 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.9211° N, 91.3854° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Cedar River → Iowa River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 52253
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Martelle910 ft
- Mechanicsville900 ft
- Lisbon860 ft
- Springville860 ft
- Stanwood840 ft
- Mount Vernon840 ft
- Marion840 ft
- Bertram820 ft
- Morley800 ft
- Solon790 ft
- Ely760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa766th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Linn County6th highest of 17
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.