Balkan Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,900 ft 580 m1,750 ft 535 m1,680 ft 510 m1,530 ft 465 m1,390 ft 420 m1,310 ft 400 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Balkan Township sits at about 1,500 ft (455 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,500 ft 455 m
most residents: 1,440–1,530 ft
Lowest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the south side
Highest
1,900 ft 580 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,500 ft 455 m
all land inside township boundaries
Balkan Township spans about 590 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 | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,900 ft580 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Airport (HIB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,354 ft413 m |
| Average of all land | 1,500 ft455 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.7 mi south to north through the middle of Balkan Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 809 2024 est.
- Land area
- 65.2 sq mi + 1.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 12 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.5517° N, 92.8820° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Little Fork River → Rainy River → Canada
- Airport
- Range Regional (HIB) 1,354 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 55703 55719 55746
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kinney1,550 ft
- Buhl1,520 ft
- Chisholm1,520 ft
- Balkan Township1,500 ft
- Hibbing1,490 ft
- Keewatin1,470 ft
- Mountain Iron1,430 ft
- Great Scott Township1,420 ft
- Bearville Township1,420 ft
- French Township1,390 ft
- Cherry Township1,370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota155th highest of 2,692
- Towns in St. Louis County10th highest of 103
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lookout Mountain, St. Louis County1,850 ft
- Maple Hill, St. Louis County1,650 ft
- Bengal Hill1,510 ft
- Blueberry Hill1,490 ft
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.