Arlington, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m1,000 ft 305 m990 ft 305 m980 ft 300 m980 ft 295 m970 ft 295 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Arlington sits at about 1,000 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,000 ft 305 m
most residents: 990–1,010 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the west side
Average
990 ft 305 m
all land inside city limits
Arlington spans about 40 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Arlington | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Average of all land | 990 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Sibley County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 2,314 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,438 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6083° N, 94.0805° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 55307
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Auburn1,010 ft
- New Auburn Township1,010 ft
- Green Isle Township1,000 ft
- Green Isle1,000 ft
- Gaylord1,000 ft
- Dryden Township1,000 ft
- Washington Lake Township1,000 ft
- Arlington1,000 ft
- Arlington Township990 ft
- Jessenland Township980 ft
- Kelso Township970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,161st highest of 2,692
- Towns in Sibley County17th highest of 24
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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, 970 ft at 44.6026° N, 94.0643° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) 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).
- 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 (FAA airport elevation, 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 (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.