Baxter, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,280 ft 390 m1,250 ft 380 m1,230 ft 375 m1,200 ft 365 m1,170 ft 355 m1,150 ft 350 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Baxter sits at about 1,210 ft (365 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,210 ft 365 m
most residents: 1,200–1,210 ft
Lowest
1,150 ft 350 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,280 ft 390 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,200 ft 365 m
all land inside city limits
Baxter spans about 130 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 | 1,210 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Baxter | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Airport (BRD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.9 mi northeast of the city limits | 1,232 ft376 m |
| Average of all land | 1,200 ft365 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 9,186 2024 est.
- Land area
- 18.9 sq mi + 2.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 487 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.3433° N, 94.2867° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Brainerd Lakes Regional (BRD) 1,232 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 56401 56425
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fairview Township1,280 ft
- Long Lake Township1,260 ft
- Oak Lawn Township1,230 ft
- St. Mathias Township1,230 ft
- Crow Wing Township1,210 ft
- East Gull Lake1,210 ft
- Brainerd1,210 ft
- Baxter1,210 ft
- Pillager1,210 ft
- Sylvan Township1,200 ft
- Fort Ripley Township1,180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,153rd highest of 2,692
- Towns in Crow Wing County45th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Ghost Hill1,550 ft
- Brush Hill1,500 ft
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).
- 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.