Twin Lakes, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,250 ft 380 m1,240 ft 375 m1,230 ft 375 m1,220 ft 375 m1,220 ft 370 m1,210 ft 370 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Twin Lakes sits at about 1,220 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,220 ft 370 m
most residents: 1,220–1,230 ft
Lowest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,240 ft 380 m
on the east side
Average
1,220 ft 375 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Twin Lakes 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 | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,240 ft380 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Twin Lakes | 1,240 ft375 m |
| Airport (2Y4) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi south of the CDP boundary | 1,216 ft371 m |
| Average of all land | 1,220 ft375 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Calhoun County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 316 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 239 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4847° N, 94.6359° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- North Raccoon River → Des Moines River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Rockwell City Municipal (2Y4) 1,216 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 50563 50579
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa215th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Calhoun County5th highest of 12
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.
- Twin Lakes 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.