West Chester, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
790 ft 240 m780 ft 240 m780 ft 235 m770 ft 235 m760 ft 230 m760 ft 230 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
West Chester sits at about 770 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
770 ft 235 m
most residents: 770–780 ft
Lowest
760 ft 230 m
on the southwest side
Highest
780 ft 235 m
on the northeast side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside city limits
West Chester is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 770 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 780 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 760 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for West Chester | 780 ft235 m |
| Airport (AWG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.2 mi southeast of the city limits | 754 ft230 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Washington County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 147 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 581 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3389° N, 91.8177° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Washington Municipal (AWG) 754 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 52359
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Harper810 ft
- Kinross800 ft
- Keota800 ft
- West Chester770 ft
- Richland770 ft
- Wellman760 ft
- Washington750 ft
- Pleasant Plain740 ft
- Brighton740 ft
- Kalona670 ft
- Coppock650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa867th highest of 1,026
- Towns in Washington Countyhighest of 9
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.