Portland, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,140 ft 350 m1,110 ft 340 m1,100 ft 335 m1,070 ft 325 m1,050 ft 320 m1,030 ft 315 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
Portland sits at about 1,080 ft (330 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,080 ft 330 m
few residents
Lowest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,140 ft 350 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,080 ft 330 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Portland 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,140 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Portland | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Airport (MCW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.5 mi west of the CDP boundary | 1,213 ft370 m |
| Average of all land | 1,080 ft330 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 28 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 28 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.1286° N, 93.1235° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Shell Rock River → Cedar River → Iowa River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mason City Municipal (MCW) 1,213 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 50401
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clear Lake1,230 ft
- Burchinal1,230 ft
- Manly1,200 ft
- Rockwell1,130 ft
- Mason City1,130 ft
- Plymouth1,120 ft
- Rudd1,110 ft
- Rock Falls1,110 ft
- Nora Springs1,090 ft
- Portland1,080 ft
- Rockford1,020 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa475th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Cerro Gordo Countylowest of 12
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Portland 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.