Elevation of Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States of America

Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States of America is 298 m (978 ft) above sea level.

Council Bluffs's height from sea level is 298 metres, or 978 feet. GeoNames reads 299 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 332 m.

Ground within 4 km

293 m – 370 m

Mean 313 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 77 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 12

among the towns of Iowa, and 191st of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Omaha

11.5 km to the W, at 358 m, 60 m higher.

Cross-section through Council Bluffs

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Council Bluffs; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 363 m at 13 km west to 371 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 316 m at 13 km north to 290 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Council Bluffs, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Council Bluffs

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Omaha (Nebraska)	11.5 km	W	358 m (1,175 ft)	+60 m
Bellevue (Nebraska)	13 km	SW	324 m (1,063 ft)	+26 m

Where Council Bluffs is

Latitude 41.2619444, longitude -95.8608333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/227_213,Council+Bluffs,Iowa,United+States+of+America"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/227_213.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Council Bluffs elevation: 298 m (978 ft) above sea level"></a>

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Council Bluffs's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 299 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.