Leech Lake Reservation, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,510 ft 460 m1,450 ft 445 m1,420 ft 435 m1,360 ft 415 m1,300 ft 395 m1,270 ft 390 m
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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
Leech Lake Reservation averages about 1,330 ft (405 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,270 ft on the east side to 1,510 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
1,330 ft 405 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
1,510 ft 460 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
1,270 ft 390 m
on the east side
Leech Lake Reservation spans about 240 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 | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on the southwest side | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the east side | 1,270 ft390 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
28 mi south to north through Pike Bay Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation, with off-reservation trust land in Minnesota, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 11,388 2020 Census
- Land area
- 973.4 sq mi + 337.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 12 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 83%, Canada 17%
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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 Minnesota4th highest of 12
- Tribal lands in the United States219th highest of 704
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Swede Hill1,340 ft
All 35 towns in the reservation by typical elevation
- Oteneagen Township1,380 ft
- Wilkinson Township1,380 ft
- Hart Lake Township partly1,380 ft
- Shingobee Township partly1,370 ft
- Turtle River Township partly1,360 ft
- Kego Township1,360 ft
- Turtle Lake Township, Cass County1,360 ft
- Frohn Township partly1,350 ft
- Good Hope Township1,350 ft
- Max Township1,350 ft
- Farden Township partly1,350 ft
- Bowstring Township partly1,350 ft
- Sand Lake Township1,350 ft
- Moose Lake Township, Beltrami County1,340 ft
- Inguadona Township partly1,340 ft
- Squaw Lake1,340 ft
- Pine Lake Township, Cass County1,340 ft
- Longville partly1,340 ft
- Otter Tail Peninsula Township1,340 ft
- Pike Bay Township1,330 ft
- Cass Lake1,330 ft
- Inger1,330 ft
- Lakeport Township partly1,330 ft
- Ten Lake Township1,330 ft
- Whipholt1,320 ft
- Bena1,320 ft
- Steamboat River Township partly1,320 ft
- Leech Lake Township1,320 ft
- Boy Lake Township1,310 ft
- Morse Township, Itasca County1,310 ft
- Sugar Bush Township, Beltrami County1,310 ft
- Rogers Township1,310 ft
- Gould Township1,300 ft
- Ball Club1,300 ft
- Deer River partly1,290 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.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,270 ft at 47.2840° N, 93.7871° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.