Bois Forte Reservation, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,510 ft 460 m1,420 ft 435 m1,380 ft 420 m1,290 ft 395 m1,200 ft 365 m1,160 ft 355 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official reservation boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bois Forte Reservation averages about 1,320 ft (400 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,160 ft on the north side to 1,510 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
1,320 ft 400 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
1,510 ft 460 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
1,160 ft 355 m
on the north side
Bois Forte Reservation spans about 350 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on the northeast side | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the north side | 1,160 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through Nett Lake.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation, with off-reservation trust land in Minnesota, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 984 2020 Census
- Land area
- 201.8 sq mi + 12.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.9 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Central Lowland 79%, Superior Upland 21%
- Drains to
- Canada
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average
- White Earth Reservation1,430 ft
- Minnesota Chippewa Trust Land1,400 ft
- Leech Lake Reservation1,330 ft
- Bois Forte Reservation1,320 ft
- Fond du Lac Reservation1,300 ft
- Red Lake Reservation1,190 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Tribal lands in Minnesota5th highest of 12
- Tribal lands in the United States220th highest of 704
All 3 towns in the reservation by typical elevation
- Greenwood Township partly1,380 ft
- Leiding Township partly1,330 ft
- Nett Lake1,300 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census reservation boundary (TIGER/Line AIANNH, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Name: the Census Bureau's legal or statistical area name, as published; the nation's own name may differ.
- Population: 2020 Census residents of the blocks inside the boundary.
- Nearby Places: nearest tribal lands and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the reservation with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the reservation.
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.