Blue Earth, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,100 ft 335 m1,090 ft 330 m1,080 ft 330 m1,060 ft 325 m1,050 ft 320 m1,040 ft 315 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Blue Earth sits at about 1,080 ft (330 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,080 ft 330 m
most residents: 1,050–1,090 ft
Lowest
1,040 ft 315 m
on the north side
Highest
1,100 ft 335 m
on the north side
Average
1,070 ft 325 m
all land inside city limits
Blue Earth spans about 60 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 | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Blue Earth | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Airport (SBU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.9 mi south of the city limits | 1,107 ft337 m |
| Average of all land | 1,070 ft325 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Faribault County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 3,159 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 843 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.6375° N, 94.1022° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Blue Earth River → Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Blue Earth Municipal (SBU) 1,107 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 56013
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Frost1,130 ft
- Rome Township1,120 ft
- Elmore1,120 ft
- Elmore Township1,110 ft
- Emerald Township1,110 ft
- Jo Daviess Township1,100 ft
- Barber Township1,100 ft
- Prescott Township1,090 ft
- Blue Earth City Township1,080 ft
- Verona Township1,080 ft
- Blue Earth1,080 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,700th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Faribault County24th highest of 31
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.