Athens Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
970 ft 295 m950 ft 290 m940 ft 285 m920 ft 280 m900 ft 275 m890 ft 270 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Athens Township sits at about 930 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
930 ft 285 m
most residents: 920–940 ft
Lowest
890 ft 270 m
on the west side
Highest
970 ft 295 m
on the northeast side
Average
930 ft 280 m
all land inside township boundaries
Athens Township spans about 80 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 | 930 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 970 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 890 ft270 m |
| Airport (CBG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.9 mi north of the township boundaries | 945 ft288 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.7 mi west to east through the middle of Athens Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Isanti County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 2,140 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.8 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 70 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.4461° N, 93.2284° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Cambridge Municipal (CBG) 945 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 55040
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Isanti Township950 ft
- Isanti940 ft
- Stanford Township940 ft
- Bradford Township930 ft
- Athens Township930 ft
- Bethel930 ft
- St. Francis920 ft
- Oxford Township920 ft
- Martin Lake910 ft
- Linwood Township910 ft
- Oak Grove910 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,404th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Isanti County15th highest of 17
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.