Rochester, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
750 ft 230 m720 ft 220 m710 ft 215 m680 ft 210 m650 ft 200 m640 ft 195 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
Rochester sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 660–690 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the west side
Highest
750 ft 230 m
on the east side
Average
680 ft 210 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rochester 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 750 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 640 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rochester | 660 ft200 m |
| Airport (8C4) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi north of the CDP boundary | 840 ft256 m |
| Average of all land | 680 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Cedar County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 142 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 149 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.6739° N, 91.1585° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Cedar River → Iowa River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mathews Memorial (8C4) 840 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 52772
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tipton810 ft
- New Liberty800 ft
- Bennett750 ft
- West Branch740 ft
- Durant720 ft
- Downey710 ft
- Wilton700 ft
- West Liberty680 ft
- Atalissa660 ft
- Rochester660 ft
- Moscow650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa979th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Cedar Countylowest of 10
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.
- Rochester 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.