Big Lake, Carlton County, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,430 ft 435 m1,400 ft 425 m1,380 ft 420 m1,350 ft 410 m1,310 ft 400 m1,300 ft 395 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Big Lake, Carlton County sits at about 1,330 ft (405 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,330 ft 405 m
most residents: 1,300–1,370 ft
Lowest
1,300 ft 395 m
on the south side
Highest
1,430 ft 435 m
on the north side
Average
1,330 ft 405 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Big Lake, Carlton County 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 | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Airport (COQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.4 mi east of the CDP boundary | 1,279 ft390 m |
| Average of all land | 1,330 ft405 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the middle of Big Lake, Carlton County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 464 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 219 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.6958° N, 92.6287° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Saint Louis River
- Airport
- Cloquet/carlton County (COQ) 1,279 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 55720
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Big Lake, Carlton County1,330 ft
- Perch Lake Township1,310 ft
- Stoney Brook Township1,310 ft
- Mahnomen, St. Louis County1,290 ft
- Cloquet1,260 ft
- Atkinson Township1,230 ft
- Scanlon1,230 ft
- Mahtowa1,180 ft
- Twin Lakes Township1,170 ft
- Mahtowa Township1,170 ft
- Carlton1,080 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota627th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Carlton Countyhighest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarloaf1,490 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Big Lake, Carlton County is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.