Palo Alto County, IA

Measured terrain around the Palo Alto County centroid

Centroid elevation

367

m (1,204 ft)

Terrain relief

75

m spread (p95−p5, ~20–40 km window)

The county center sits at about 367 m above sea level. Elevation across the sampled window spreads 75 m — gently rolling terrain by our banding (flat <30 m · gently rolling 30–100 m · hilly 100–300 m · mountainous >300 m). These are county-scale context, not parcel measurements — a specific parcel gets its own slope, flood and usable-acreage readings when analyzed.

Elevation measured 2026-07-21 from the AWS Terrain Tiles (terrarium encoding, z10).

Data available for Palo Alto County

• No free owner records. Iowa does not publish a free statewide parcel-and-owner dataset, so LandBenchmark cannot show who owns a parcel in Palo Alto County. The county assessor's office is the authoritative source. Every measured signal below is unaffected.
• Legal description — township, range and section from the BLM Public Land Survey System.
• FEMA flood zones, wetlands, soil survey and NCCPI soil productivity — the federal layers, all free and all available here.
• 56 measured signals from satellite imagery and public records — slope and usable acreage, observed surface water, vegetation trend, wildfire and seismic hazard, access and neighboring land use. Each one cites its method, its source, and the date it was observed.

LandBenchmark has no listings and does not know what is for sale in Palo Alto County. It analyses a parcel you point it at. It is an automated Phase-1 desk screen, not a survey, a flood determination, or a substitute for on-site inspection.