Bridgewater Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m1,120 ft 340 m1,080 ft 330 m1,010 ft 310 m950 ft 290 m910 ft 280 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
Bridgewater Township sits at about 1,020 ft (310 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,020 ft 310 m
most residents: 950–1,070 ft
Lowest
910 ft 280 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
on the south side
Average
1,020 ft 310 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bridgewater Township spans about 270 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 | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 910 ft280 m |
| Airport (FBL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.3 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,060 ft323 m |
| Average of all land | 1,020 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.9 mi south to north through the middle of Bridgewater Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Rice County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 1,839 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 51 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.4278° N, 93.1871° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Faribault Muni-liz Wall Strohfus Field (FBL) 1,060 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 55019 55021 55057
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wheeling Township1,180 ft
- Cannon City Township1,130 ft
- Forest Township1,060 ft
- Bridgewater Township1,020 ft
- Northfield Township1,010 ft
- Dennison1,000 ft
- Greenvale Township970 ft
- Dundas970 ft
- Northfield960 ft
- Castle Rock Township940 ft
- Waterford Township930 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,075th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Rice County15th highest of 21
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. All public domain.