Courtland, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,020 ft 310 m960 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m870 ft 265 m810 ft 245 m780 ft 235 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
Courtland sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 860–1,010 ft
Lowest
780 ft 235 m
on the south side
Highest
1,020 ft 310 m
on the northeast side
Average
930 ft 285 m
all land inside city limits
Courtland spans about 240 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 780 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Courtland | 930 ft285 m |
| Airport (ULM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi northwest of the city limits | 1,011 ft308 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 724 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.6 sq mi
- Density
- 277 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2683° N, 94.3402° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- New Ulm Municipal (ULM) 1,011 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 56021
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Linden Township1,000 ft
- Searles990 ft
- Butternut Valley Township990 ft
- Courtland Township990 ft
- Brighton Township990 ft
- Nicollet990 ft
- Cottonwood Township980 ft
- Nicollet Township980 ft
- Cambria Township970 ft
- New Ulm890 ft
- Courtland870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,562nd highest of 2,692
- Towns in Nicollet County17th highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fort Hill1,060 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.