Iron County, UT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
11,310 ft 3,450 m9,750 ft 2,970 m8,970 ft 2,735 m7,400 ft 2,255 m5,840 ft 1,780 m5,050 ft 1,540 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
Iron County averages about 6,360 ft (1,940 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 5,050 ft on the north side to 11,312 ft on Brian Head.
Average elevation
6,360 ft 1,940 m
all land inside the county
Highest
11,312 ft 3,448 m
on Brian Head
Lowest
5,050 ft 1,540 m
on the north side
Iron County spans about 6,260 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 | 6,360 ft1,940 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Brian Head (NGS survey height) | 11,312 ft3,448 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 5,050 ft1,540 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
75 mi west to east through Cedar City.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Utah, United States
- Population
- 65,936 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3,296.2 sq mi + 4.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 20 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Basin and Range 77%, Colorado Plateaus 24%
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 96%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Garfield County6,820 ft
- Beaver County6,370 ft
- Iron County6,360 ft
- Kane County5,820 ft
- Lincoln County, NV5,250 ft
- Washington County5,080 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Utah14th highest of 29
- Counties in the United States89th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Brian Head11,312 ft
- Black Mountain10,380 ft
- Cedar Mountain10,135 ft
- Sandy Peak9,550 ft
- Iron Mountain7,810 ft
All 11 towns in Iron County by typical elevation
- Brian Head9,880 ft
- Cedar Highlands7,950 ft
- Summit5,970 ft
- Parowan5,970 ft
- Paragonah5,880 ft
- Cedar City5,790 ft
- Kanarraville5,560 ft
- Enoch5,530 ft
- Modena5,470 ft
- Newcastle5,300 ft
- Beryl Junction5,180 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; 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.