Rowley, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,000 ft 305 m990 ft 300 m980 ft 300 m970 ft 295 m970 ft 295 m960 ft 295 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
Rowley sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 970–990 ft
Lowest
960 ft 295 m
on the northwest side
Highest
990 ft 300 m
on the south side
Average
980 ft 300 m
all land inside city limits
Rowley spans about 30 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 990 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 960 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rowley | 980 ft300 m |
| Airport (IIB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.6 mi northwest of the city limits | 979 ft298 m |
| Average of all land | 980 ft300 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Buchanan County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 264 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 680 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3700° N, 91.8441° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wapsipinicon River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- James H Connell Field at Independence Municipal (IIB) 979 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 52329
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Winthrop1,060 ft
- Masonville1,010 ft
- Rowley980 ft
- Jesup980 ft
- Independence920 ft
- Urbana890 ft
- Quasqueton890 ft
- Mount Auburn880 ft
- Walker880 ft
- Brandon830 ft
- Center Point830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa618th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Buchanan County7th highest of 11
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.