Elevation of West Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America

West Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America is 258 m (846 ft) above sea level.

West Des Moines's height from sea level is 258 metres, or 846 feet. GeoNames reads 251 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 291 m.

Ground within 4 km

243 m – 295 m

Mean 268 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 52 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 12

among the towns of Iowa, and 253rd of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Urbandale

5.5 km to the N, at 291 m, 33 m higher.

Cross-section through West 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 West Des Moines; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 309 m at 13 km west to 238 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 275 m at 13 km north to 262 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around West 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 West Des Moines

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Urbandale	5.5 km	N	291 m (955 ft)	+33 m
Des Moines	8.9 km	E	246 m (807 ft)	−12 m
Ankeny	18 km	NE	298 m (978 ft)	+40 m

Where West Des Moines is

Latitude 41.5772115, longitude -93.711332. 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_958,West+Des+Moines,Iowa,United+States+of+America"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/227_958.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="West Des Moines elevation: 258 m (846 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 West 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 251 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.