Lowell, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
720 ft 220 m680 ft 205 m650 ft 200 m610 ft 185 m560 ft 170 m540 ft 165 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
Lowell sits at about 600 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
600 ft 185 m
most residents: 550–670 ft
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the southeast side
Highest
720 ft 220 m
on the north side
Average
610 ft 185 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lowell spans about 180 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 | 600 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 720 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 540 ft165 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lowell | 590 ft180 m |
| Airport (MPZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 731 ft223 m |
| Average of all land | 610 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Henry County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 70 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 70 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8334° N, 91.4365° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mount Pleasant Municipal (MPZ) 731 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 52645
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West Point770 ft
- New London760 ft
- Middletown720 ft
- Danville720 ft
- Mount Pleasant720 ft
- Houghton720 ft
- Salem710 ft
- Denmark710 ft
- St. Paul700 ft
- Lowell600 ft
- Augusta550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa1,011th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Henry Countylowest of 13
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.
- Lowell 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.