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Elevation of Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America

Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America is 246 m (807 ft) above sea level.

Des Moines's height from sea level is 246 metres, or 807 feet. GeoNames reads 264 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 291 m.

Ground within 4 km

235 m – 289 m

Mean 255 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 54 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 12

among the towns of Iowa, and 273rd of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

West Des Moines

8.9 km to the W, at 258 m, 12 m higher.

Cross-section through Des Moines

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 Des Moines; the vertical scale is the same on both.

308231WE25.1 km
West to east: from 256 m at 13 km west to 273 m at 13 km east.
308231NS25.1 km
North to south: from 302 m at 13 km north to 242 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Des Moines, 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 Des Moines

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
West Des Moines 8.9 kmW 258 m (846 ft) +12 m
Urbandale 9 kmW 291 m (955 ft) +45 m
Ankeny 13.3 kmN 298 m (978 ft) +52 m

Where Des Moines is

Latitude 41.6005448, longitude -93.6091064. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Des Moines elevation: 246 m (807 ft) above sea level

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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 Des Moines'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 264 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.