Walnut, IA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,350 ft 410 m1,330 ft 405 m1,320 ft 400 m1,290 ft 395 m1,270 ft 385 m1,260 ft 385 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Walnut sits at about 1,330 ft (405 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,330 ft 405 m

most residents: 1,310–1,350 ft

Lowest

1,260 ft 385 m

on the northeast side

Highest

1,350 ft 410 m

on the north side

Average

1,310 ft 400 m

all land inside city limits

Walnut spans about 90 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	1,330 ft405 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side	1,350 ft410 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side	1,260 ft385 m
Town center USGS map point for Walnut	1,330 ft405 m
Average of all land	1,310 ft400 m

Elevation profile, south to north

2.1 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States
Population: 728 2024 est.
Land area: 2.2 sq mi
Density: 331 per sq mi
Coordinates: 41.4775° N, 95.2219° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 51577

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Elk Horn1,370 ft
Shelby1,340 ft
Walnut1,330 ft
Kimballton1,300 ft
Jacksonville1,290 ft
Harlan1,260 ft
Atlantic1,240 ft
Marne1,210 ft
Corley1,180 ft
Avoca1,170 ft
Hancock1,120 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Iowa86th highest of 1,026
Towns in Pottawattamie Countyhighest 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).
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.