Fond du Lac Reservation, MN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,610 ft 490 m1,370 ft 415 m1,250 ft 380 m1,010 ft 305 m770 ft 235 m650 ft 195 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Fond du Lac Reservation averages about 1,300 ft (395 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 650 ft on the east side to 1,610 ft on the northwest side.

Average elevation

1,300 ft 395 m

all land inside the reservation

Highest

1,610 ft 490 m

on the northwest side

Lowest

650 ft 195 m

on the east side

Fond du Lac Reservation spans about 960 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	1,300 ft395 m
Highest point Inside the reservation, on the northwest side	1,610 ft490 m
Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the east side	650 ft195 m

Elevation profile, south to north

14 mi south to north through Perch Lake Township.

Topographic Map

Location: Reservation, with off-reservation trust land in Minnesota and Wisconsin, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
Population: 4,184 2020 Census
Land area: 154.5 sq mi + 4.9 sq mi water
Density: 27 per sq mi
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Superior Upland

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average

Minnesota Chippewa Trust Land1,400 ft
Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, WI1,370 ft
Fond du Lac Reservation1,300 ft
Mille Lacs Reservation1,270 ft
St. Croix Reservation, WI1,090 ft
Red Cliff Reservation, WI720 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Tribal lands in Minnesota6th highest of 12
Tribal lands in the United States222nd highest of 704

All 11 towns in the reservation by typical elevation

Arrowhead Township partly1,340 ft
Big Lake, Carlton County1,330 ft
Perch Lake Township1,310 ft
Culver Township partly1,310 ft
Stoney Brook Township1,310 ft
Brevator Township partly1,300 ft
Mahnomen, St. Louis County1,290 ft
Cloquet partly1,260 ft
Brookston1,240 ft
Twin Lakes Township partly1,170 ft
Solon Springs partly1,110 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; 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.