Elevation of Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America

Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America is 189 m (620 ft) above sea level.

Dubuque's height from sea level is 189 metres, or 620 feet. GeoNames reads 194 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 188 m to 189 m.

Ground within 4 km

180 m – 266 m

Mean 219 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 86 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 12

among the towns of Iowa, and 396th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Cross-section through Dubuque

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Dubuque; the vertical scale is the same on both.

362168WE25 km
West to east: from 273 m at 13 km west to 265 m at 13 km east.
362168NS25 km
North to south: from 262 m at 13 km north to 326 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Dubuque, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 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.

Peaks and passes near Dubuque

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Dubuque is

Latitude 42.5005583, longitude -90.6645718. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Dubuque elevation: 189 m (620 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 Dubuque'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 194 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.