Balsam Township, Aitkin County, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,410 ft 430 m1,360 ft 415 m1,340 ft 405 m1,290 ft 395 m1,240 ft 380 m1,220 ft 370 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Balsam Township, Aitkin County sits at about 1,260 ft (385 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,260 ft 385 m
few residents
Lowest
1,220 ft 370 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,410 ft 430 m
on the north side
Average
1,260 ft 385 m
all land inside township boundaries
Balsam Township, Aitkin County spans about 190 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Balsam Township, Aitkin County | 1,240 ft380 m |
| Average of all land | 1,260 ft385 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Aitkin County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 32 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.0 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.9 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.7811° N, 93.1561° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 3
- 55760 55787 55798
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wright1,310 ft
- Beseman Township1,310 ft
- Cornish Township, Aitkin County1,300 ft
- Prairie Lake Township1,280 ft
- Tamarack1,270 ft
- Balsam Township, Aitkin County1,260 ft
- Haugen Township1,260 ft
- Shamrock Township1,240 ft
- Libby Township1,240 ft
- Turner Township1,230 ft
- Workman Township1,230 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota912th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Aitkin County25th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarloaf1,490 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.