West Union, IA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,220 ft 370 m1,190 ft 360 m1,170 ft 355 m1,140 ft 345 m1,110 ft 340 m1,090 ft 335 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
West Union sits at about 1,170 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,170 ft 355 m
most residents: 1,140–1,180 ft
Lowest
1,090 ft 335 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,220 ft 370 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,160 ft 350 m
all land inside city limits
West Union spans about 130 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 | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,090 ft335 m |
| Town center USGS map point for West Union | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Airport (3Y2) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi northeast of the city limits | 1,232 ft376 m |
| Average of all land | 1,160 ft350 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Fayette County, Iowa, United States
- Population
- 2,435 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.7 sq mi
- Density
- 886 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9628° N, 91.8082° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Turkey River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- George L Scott Municipal (3Y2) 1,232 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 52175
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Iowa303rd highest of 1,026
- Towns in Fayette Countyhighest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Corn Hill1,200 ft
- Bear Hill1,180 ft
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.