Cerro Gordo Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,080 ft 330 m1,060 ft 325 m1,050 ft 320 m1,030 ft 315 m1,000 ft 305 m990 ft 305 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
Cerro Gordo 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: 1,020–1,060 ft
Lowest
990 ft 305 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,080 ft 330 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,040 ft 315 m
all land inside township boundaries
Cerro Gordo Township spans about 90 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 | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 990 ft305 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cerro Gordo Township | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Airport (DXX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,083 ft330 m |
| Average of all land | 1,040 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 182 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.0525° N, 96.0320° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lac Qui Parle County (DXX) 1,083 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 56208 56232 56256
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Madison1,090 ft
- Madison Township1,070 ft
- Dawson1,050 ft
- Riverside Township1,050 ft
- Cerro Gordo Township1,040 ft
- Baxter Township1,040 ft
- Lake Shore Township1,030 ft
- Lac qui Parle Township1,020 ft
- Hantho Township1,020 ft
- Kragero Township1,020 ft
- Milan1,010 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,937th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Lac qui Parle County22nd highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Wickham1,170 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, 990 ft at 44.9857° N, 95.9835° 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.