Collins Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,090 ft 335 m1,070 ft 325 m1,060 ft 325 m1,040 ft 315 m1,020 ft 310 m1,010 ft 310 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
Collins Township sits at about 1,040 ft (320 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,040 ft 320 m
most residents: 1,030–1,060 ft
Lowest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the east side
Highest
1,090 ft 335 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,050 ft 320 m
all land inside township boundaries
Collins Township spans about 80 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 ft320 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,090 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Airport (HCD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.8 mi north of the township boundaries | 1,062 ft324 m |
| Average of all land | 1,050 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Collins Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in McLeod County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 436 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.3 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 13 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.7645° N, 94.4235° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Buffalo Creek → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Hutchinson Municipal/Butler Field (HCD) 1,062 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 55312 55350 55385
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Boon Lake Township1,070 ft
- Lynn Township1,070 ft
- Preston Lake Township1,060 ft
- Stewart1,060 ft
- Hassan Valley Township1,060 ft
- Round Grove Township1,040 ft
- Collins Township1,040 ft
- Sumter Township1,030 ft
- Brownton1,030 ft
- Biscay1,020 ft
- Penn Township1,020 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,913th highest of 2,692
- Towns in McLeod County10th highest of 23
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).
- 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.