Van Buren County, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 245 m740 ft 225 m700 ft 215 m630 ft 190 m560 ft 170 m520 ft 160 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Van Buren County averages about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 520 ft on the southeast side to 810 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
710 ft 215 m
all land inside the county
Highest
810 ft 245 m
on the west side
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the southeast side
Van Buren County spans about 290 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 810 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 520 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Keosauqua.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Iowa, United States
- Population
- 7,217 2024 est.
- Land area
- 484.8 sq mi + 5.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 15 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Davis County830 ft
- Scotland County, MO760 ft
- Jefferson County730 ft
- Van Buren County710 ft
- Henry County690 ft
- Lee County650 ft
- Clark County, MO650 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Iowa94th highest of 99
- Counties in the United States2,016th highest of 3,151
All 10 towns in Van Buren County by typical elevation
- Milton800 ft
- Cantril770 ft
- Birmingham760 ft
- Stockport750 ft
- Leando660 ft
- Mount Sterling650 ft
- Douds640 ft
- Keosauqua620 ft
- Bonaparte560 ft
- Farmington560 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.