Burke Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,850 ft 565 m1,790 ft 545 m1,760 ft 535 m1,700 ft 515 m1,640 ft 500 m1,600 ft 490 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
Burke Township sits at about 1,690 ft (515 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,690 ft 515 m
most residents: 1,660–1,770 ft
Lowest
1,600 ft 490 m
on the south side
Highest
1,850 ft 565 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,720 ft 525 m
all land inside township boundaries
Burke Township spans about 250 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 | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,850 ft565 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,600 ft490 m |
| Airport (PQN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,737 ft529 m |
| Average of all land | 1,720 ft525 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Burke Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Pipestone County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 208 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.5 sq mi
- Density
- 6.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.9837° N, 96.1348° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Rock River → Big Sioux River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Pipestone Municipal (PQN) 1,737 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 56128 56186
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Woodstock1,820 ft
- Rock Township1,800 ft
- Holland1,780 ft
- Grange Township1,760 ft
- Chanarambie Township1,750 ft
- Gray Township1,740 ft
- Hatfield1,700 ft
- Elmer Township1,700 ft
- Burke Township1,690 ft
- Osborne Township1,620 ft
- Edgerton1,580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota43rd highest of 2,692
- Towns in Pipestone County14th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Point1,970 ft
- Poverty Hill1,730 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. All public domain.