Elevation of Ankeny, Iowa, United States of America

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

Ankeny's height from sea level is 298 metres, or 978 feet. GeoNames reads 300 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 277 m.

Ground within 4 km

244 m – 302 m

Mean 285 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 58 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

Des Moines

13.3 km to the S, at 246 m, 52 m lower.

Cross-section through Ankeny

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ankeny; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 259 m at 13 km west to 296 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 306 m at 13 km north to 252 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Ankeny, 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 Ankeny

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Des Moines	13.3 km	S	246 m (807 ft)	−52 m
Urbandale	13.4 km	SW	291 m (955 ft)	−7 m
West Des Moines	18 km	SW	258 m (846 ft)	−40 m
Ames	33.8 km	N	276 m (906 ft)	−22 m

Where Ankeny is

Latitude 41.72, longitude -93.61. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Ankeny'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 300 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.