Credit River, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m1,110 ft 335 m1,070 ft 325 m990 ft 305 m920 ft 280 m880 ft 270 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
Credit River sits at about 990 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
990 ft 300 m
most residents: 940–1,100 ft
Lowest
880 ft 270 m
on the north side
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside city limits
Credit River spans about 300 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 | 990 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 880 ft270 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Credit River | 990 ft300 m |
| Airport (LVN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.5 mi southeast of the city limits | 960 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Scott County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 5,589 2024 est.
- Land area
- 23.4 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 239 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6744° N, 93.3791° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Airlake (LVN) 960 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Elko New Market1,130 ft
- New Market Township1,060 ft
- Lakeville1,000 ft
- Eureka Township990 ft
- Credit River990 ft
- Cedar Lake Township980 ft
- Apple Valley960 ft
- Spring Lake Township960 ft
- Burnsville950 ft
- Prior Lake940 ft
- Savage890 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,204th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Scott County4th highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buck Hill1,200 ft
- Mount Gilboa1,010 ft
- Pilot Knob950 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.