Cascade Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m1,160 ft 355 m1,120 ft 340 m1,040 ft 320 m970 ft 295 m930 ft 285 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
Cascade Township sits at about 1,040 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,040 ft 315 m
most residents: 950–1,140 ft
Lowest
930 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,230 ft 375 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,070 ft 325 m
all land inside township boundaries
Cascade Township spans about 300 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 | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 930 ft285 m |
| Airport (RST) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.0 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,317 ft401 m |
| Average of all land | 1,070 ft325 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.5 mi south to north through the middle of Cascade Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 2,835 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 253 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0736° N, 92.4718° 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 3
- 55901 55906 55960
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Byron1,230 ft
- Haverhill Township1,210 ft
- Rochester Township1,190 ft
- Kalmar Township1,180 ft
- Salem Township1,160 ft
- Farmington Township1,120 ft
- New Haven Township1,060 ft
- Rochester1,050 ft
- Cascade Township1,040 ft
- Oronoco Township1,020 ft
- Oronoco990 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,967th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Olmsted County24th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chance Hollow Hill1,320 ft
- Sugarloaf Hill1,160 ft
- Foley Mound980 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 930 ft at 44.1051° N, 92.4490° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.