Superior, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,530 ft 465 m1,510 ft 460 m1,510 ft 460 m1,490 ft 455 m1,480 ft 450 m1,470 ft 450 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
Superior sits at about 1,500 ft (455 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,500 ft 455 m
most residents: 1,490–1,510 ft
Lowest
1,470 ft 450 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,530 ft 465 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,490 ft 455 m
all land inside city limits
Superior spans about 60 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 | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,470 ft450 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Superior | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Average of all land | 1,490 ft455 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dickinson County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 127 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 296 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.4302° N, 94.9464° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Little Sioux River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 51363
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Superior1,500 ft
- Spirit Lake1,450 ft
- Okoboji1,430 ft
- Terril1,430 ft
- Arnolds Park1,430 ft
- Orleans1,420 ft
- Middletown Township, MN1,400 ft
- Petersburg Township, MN1,370 ft
- Lake Fremont Township, MN1,340 ft
- Estherville1,320 ft
- Wallingford1,270 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa9th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Dickinson Countyhighest of 10
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, 1,470 ft at 43.4365° N, 94.9521° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.