Butterfield Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,280 ft 390 m1,230 ft 375 m1,210 ft 370 m1,160 ft 355 m1,110 ft 340 m1,090 ft 330 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
Butterfield Township sits at about 1,170 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,170 ft 355 m
most residents: 1,120–1,210 ft
Lowest
1,090 ft 330 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,280 ft 390 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,170 ft 355 m
all land inside township boundaries
Butterfield Township spans about 190 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 | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Average of all land | 1,170 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Butterfield Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Watonwan County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 198 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.5 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.9854° N, 94.8093° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 56120
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mountain Lake Township1,310 ft
- Mountain Lake1,300 ft
- Midway Township, Cottonwood County1,260 ft
- Odin Township1,240 ft
- Selma Township1,190 ft
- Butterfield1,180 ft
- Butterfield Township1,170 ft
- Darfur1,160 ft
- Long Lake Township, Watonwan County1,140 ft
- Adrian Township1,100 ft
- St. James Township1,090 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,303rd highest of 2,692
- Towns in Watonwan County5th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fort Hill1,060 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.