Bluffton Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,470 ft 450 m1,430 ft 435 m1,410 ft 430 m1,360 ft 415 m1,320 ft 405 m1,300 ft 395 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
Bluffton Township sits at about 1,390 ft (425 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,390 ft 425 m
most residents: 1,350–1,410 ft
Lowest
1,300 ft 395 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,470 ft 450 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,380 ft 420 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bluffton Township spans about 170 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 | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,470 ft450 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Airport (ADC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.6 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,368 ft417 m |
| Average of all land | 1,380 ft420 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.0 mi south to north through the middle of Bluffton Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 465 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.9 sq mi
- Density
- 14 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.5032° N, 95.2230° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Crow Wing River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Wadena Municipal (ADC) 1,368 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 56482 56518 56567
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Homestead Township1,430 ft
- Blowers Township1,420 ft
- New York Mills1,410 ft
- Newton Township1,400 ft
- Deer Creek Township1,400 ft
- Bluffton Township1,390 ft
- Compton Township1,370 ft
- Bluffton1,360 ft
- Wadena Township1,350 ft
- Wadena1,350 ft
- Leaf River Township1,350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota386th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Otter Tail County26th highest of 82
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Peak1,650 ft
- Mount Nebo1,513 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.