Local time
Sun, 9:54 AM CDTAmerica/ChicagoCity
Des Moines
41.58° N, 93.62° W
- Population
- 380,655
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 112 of 420
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 420 cities of United States of America in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of United States of America, so this is not a national ranking.
- State
- Iowa State
- Natural Earth marks this city as the capital of a first-level administrative unit; the state is the one whose boundary contains the city.
- Founded
- 1843
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Elevation
- 291 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Polk County
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Named after
- Des Moines River
- Wikidata · P138 · checked 2026-09-18
- Time zone
- America/Chicago
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Des Moines, from the same records as the rest of this page.
Country
United States of AmericaCountry profileOn the ground
No mapped places yetDistricts not mappedNo places in Des Moines have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
