Elevation of Urbandale, Iowa, United States of America

Urbandale, Iowa, United States of America is 291 m (955 ft) above sea level.

Urbandale's height from sea level is 291 metres, or 955 feet. GeoNames reads 287 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 288 m.

Ground within 4 km

243 m – 295 m

Mean 273 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 52 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 12

among the towns of Iowa, and 198th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

West Des Moines

5.5 km to the S, at 258 m, 33 m lower.

Cross-section through Urbandale

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 Urbandale; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 290 m at 13 km west to 253 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 263 m at 13 km north to 276 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Urbandale, 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 Urbandale

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
West Des Moines	5.5 km	S	258 m (846 ft)	−33 m
Des Moines	9 km	E	246 m (807 ft)	−45 m
Ankeny	13.4 km	NE	298 m (978 ft)	+7 m

Where Urbandale is

Latitude 41.6266555, longitude -93.7121656. 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_926,Urbandale,Iowa,United+States+of+America"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/227_926.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Urbandale elevation: 291 m (955 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 Urbandale'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 287 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.