Chanhassen, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,090 ft 330 m990 ft 300 m940 ft 285 m840 ft 255 m750 ft 230 m700 ft 215 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Chanhassen sits at about 950 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
950 ft 290 m
most residents: 900–1,010 ft
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
on the south side
Highest
1,090 ft 330 m
on the northwest side
Average
920 ft 280 m
all land inside city limits
Chanhassen spans about 390 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 | 950 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 700 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Chanhassen | 980 ft295 m |
| Airport (MSP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi east of the city limits | 842 ft257 m |
| Average of all land | 920 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Carver County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 25,746 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.4 sq mi + 2.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,264 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.8622° N, 93.5308° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Minneapolis-st Paul Intl/wold-chamberlain (MSP) 842 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 55317 55318 55331
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Shorewood970 ft
- Deephaven960 ft
- Chanhassen950 ft
- Excelsior950 ft
- Woodland950 ft
- Minnetonka940 ft
- Greenwood940 ft
- Tonka Bay930 ft
- Eden Prairie880 ft
- Jackson Township810 ft
- Shakopee810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,334th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Carver County16th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buck Hill1,200 ft
- Mount Gilboa1,010 ft
- Sunset Hill960 ft
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.