Byron, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,270 ft 390 m1,230 ft 375 m1,200 ft 365 m1,160 ft 355 m1,110 ft 340 m1,090 ft 330 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Byron sits at about 1,230 ft (375 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,230 ft 375 m
most residents: 1,150–1,250 ft
Lowest
1,090 ft 330 m
on the north side
Highest
1,270 ft 390 m
on the east side
Average
1,200 ft 365 m
all land inside city limits
Byron spans about 180 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 | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,270 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Byron | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Airport (RST) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.9 mi southeast of the city limits | 1,317 ft401 m |
| Average of all land | 1,200 ft365 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 6,809 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.2 sq mi
- Density
- 2,141 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0327° N, 92.6455° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Zumbro River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Rochester International (RST) 1,317 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 55920
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kasson1,250 ft
- Canisteo Township1,240 ft
- Rock Dell Township1,240 ft
- Byron1,230 ft
- Mantorville Township1,200 ft
- Rochester Township1,190 ft
- Kalmar Township1,180 ft
- Mantorville1,160 ft
- Salem Township1,160 ft
- New Haven Township1,060 ft
- Rochester1,050 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,065th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Olmsted County9th highest of 26
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.