Springville, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
910 ft 280 m870 ft 265 m840 ft 255 m800 ft 245 m750 ft 230 m730 ft 220 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
Springville sits at about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 260 m
most residents: 830–880 ft
Lowest
730 ft 220 m
on the southwest side
Highest
910 ft 280 m
on the south side
Average
860 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Springville spans about 180 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 | 860 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 910 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 730 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Springville | 840 ft255 m |
| Airport (C17) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.1 mi southwest of the city limits | 861 ft262 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Linn County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 1,161 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 481 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.0594° N, 91.4427° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Cedar River → Iowa River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Marion (C17) 861 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 52336
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Martelle910 ft
- Alburnett900 ft
- Stone City880 ft
- Lisbon860 ft
- Springville860 ft
- Central City840 ft
- Mount Vernon840 ft
- Marion840 ft
- Anamosa830 ft
- Bertram820 ft
- Morley800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa774th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Linn County7th highest of 17
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, 710 ft at 42.0482° N, 91.4599° 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.