Melcher-Dallas, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 290 m940 ft 285 m930 ft 285 m910 ft 280 m890 ft 270 m890 ft 270 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
Melcher-Dallas sits at about 940 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 290 m
most residents: 930–950 ft
Lowest
890 ft 270 m
on the west side
Highest
960 ft 290 m
on the south side
Average
940 ft 285 m
all land inside city limits
Melcher-Dallas spans about 70 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 | 940 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 960 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 890 ft270 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Melcher-Dallas | 950 ft290 m |
| Airport (OXV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.5 mi northeast of the city limits | 928 ft283 m |
| Average of all land | 940 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Marion County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 1,193 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,147 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2250° N, 93.2413° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Des Moines River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Knoxville Municipal (OXV) 928 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 50062 50163
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Russell1,030 ft
- Chariton1,030 ft
- Williamson1,030 ft
- Milo970 ft
- Melcher-Dallas940 ft
- Pleasantville920 ft
- Sandyville920 ft
- Knoxville900 ft
- Ackworth880 ft
- Lacona860 ft
- Marysville740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa662nd highest of 1,026
- Towns in Marion Countyhighest of 9
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.