Burlington Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,590 ft 485 m1,530 ft 465 m1,500 ft 455 m1,440 ft 440 m1,380 ft 420 m1,350 ft 410 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
Burlington Township sits at about 1,420 ft (430 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,420 ft 430 m
most residents: 1,380–1,500 ft
Lowest
1,350 ft 410 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,590 ft 485 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,420 ft 435 m
all land inside township boundaries
Burlington Township spans about 240 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 | 1,420 ft430 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Airport (DTL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 1,396 ft426 m |
| Average of all land | 1,420 ft435 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Burlington Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Becker County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 1,692 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.1 sq mi + 2.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 51 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.7573° N, 95.7610° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Otter Tail River → Red River → Canada
- Airport
- Detroit Lakes/Wething Field (DTL) 1,396 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 56501 56544
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Erie Township1,470 ft
- Silver Leaf Township1,440 ft
- Burlington Township1,420 ft
- Candor Township1,410 ft
- Frazee1,400 ft
- Lake Eunice Township1,390 ft
- Vergas1,390 ft
- Detroit Township1,380 ft
- Hobart Township1,380 ft
- Detroit Lakes1,360 ft
- Lake View Township1,350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota319th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Becker County30th highest of 48
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Toad Mountain1,760 ft
- Detroit Mountain1,630 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.