Maurice, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,380 ft 420 m1,350 ft 410 m1,340 ft 410 m1,310 ft 400 m1,280 ft 390 m1,270 ft 385 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Maurice sits at about 1,310 ft (400 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,310 ft 400 m
most residents: 1,280–1,350 ft
Lowest
1,270 ft 385 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,380 ft 420 m
on the north side
Average
1,300 ft 395 m
all land inside city limits
Maurice spans about 110 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 | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Maurice | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Airport (SXK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.0 mi northeast of the city limits | 1,409 ft429 m |
| Average of all land | 1,300 ft395 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Sioux County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 271 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 452 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9664° N, 96.1806° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Sioux County Regional (SXK) 1,409 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 51036
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sioux Center1,440 ft
- Orange City1,420 ft
- Ireton1,410 ft
- Craig1,400 ft
- Remsen1,350 ft
- Alton1,330 ft
- Maurice1,310 ft
- Oyens1,290 ft
- Struble1,270 ft
- Brunsville1,270 ft
- Le Mars1,260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa97th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Sioux County10th highest of 13
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, 1,270 ft at 42.9624° N, 96.1879° 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.