Bay Lake Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,380 ft 420 m1,340 ft 410 m1,330 ft 405 m1,290 ft 395 m1,250 ft 380 m1,240 ft 375 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
Bay Lake Township sits at about 1,270 ft (390 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,270 ft 390 m
most residents: 1,270–1,290 ft
Lowest
1,240 ft 375 m
on the west side
Highest
1,380 ft 420 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,280 ft 390 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bay Lake Township spans about 140 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 | 1,270 ft390 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,240 ft375 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bay Lake Township | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Airport (BRD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.4 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,232 ft376 m |
| Average of all land | 1,280 ft390 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 978 2024 est.
- Land area
- 27.3 sq mi + 9.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 36 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.4094° N, 93.8739° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Ripple River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Brainerd Lakes Regional (BRD) 1,232 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 56401 56431 56444
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Garrison Township1,290 ft
- Deerwood1,270 ft
- Bay Lake Township1,270 ft
- Hazelton Township1,270 ft
- Cuyuna1,270 ft
- Deerwood Township1,270 ft
- Farm Island Township1,260 ft
- Crosby1,260 ft
- Ironton1,260 ft
- Irondale Township1,260 ft
- Nokay Lake Township1,250 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota847th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Crow Wing County13th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Warren Hill1,457 ft
- Fire Tower Hill1,390 ft
- Hickory Hill1,330 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.