Chaska, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m960 ft 295 m920 ft 280 m830 ft 255 m750 ft 225 m700 ft 215 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
Chaska sits at about 910 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 280 m
most residents: 740–960 ft
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
on the south side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the northwest side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside city limits
Chaska spans about 350 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 | 910 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 700 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Chaska | 730 ft225 m |
| Airport (FCM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.3 mi east of the city limits | 906 ft276 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Carver County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 30,167 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.1 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,760 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.7894° N, 93.6022° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Flying Cloud (FCM) 906 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 55318
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Victoria990 ft
- Laketown Township970 ft
- Shorewood970 ft
- Chanhassen950 ft
- Louisville Township950 ft
- Dahlgren Township930 ft
- Chaska910 ft
- Eden Prairie880 ft
- Carver840 ft
- Jackson Township810 ft
- Shakopee810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,443rd highest of 2,692
- Towns in Carver County20th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buck Hill1,200 ft
- Mount Gilboa1,010 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.