Marquette, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,120 ft 340 m990 ft 305 m930 ft 285 m810 ft 245 m680 ft 210 m620 ft 190 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
Marquette sits at about 820 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
820 ft 250 m
most residents: 650–820 ft
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
near the middle
Highest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the northwest side
Average
810 ft 245 m
all land inside city limits
Marquette spans about 500 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 | 820 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 620 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Marquette | 630 ft190 m |
| Airport (PDC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.9 mi southeast of the city limits | 660 ft201 m |
| Average of all land | 810 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Clayton County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 434 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 234 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0444° N, 91.1782° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Prairie Du Chien Municipal (PDC) 660 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 52157 52158
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Monona1,190 ft
- Wyalusing, WI940 ft
- Farmersburg930 ft
- Clayton900 ft
- McGregor830 ft
- Marquette820 ft
- Town of Prairie du Chien, WI800 ft
- Bridgeport, WI760 ft
- Harpers Ferry650 ft
- Prairie du Chien, WI640 ft
- Bagley, WI630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa824th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Clayton County9th highest of 16
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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 620 ft at 43.0451° N, 91.1874° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.