Des Moines Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,560 ft 475 m1,490 ft 455 m1,450 ft 445 m1,390 ft 425 m1,320 ft 400 m1,290 ft 390 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
Des Moines Township sits at about 1,440 ft (440 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,440 ft 440 m
most residents: 1,410–1,520 ft
Lowest
1,290 ft 390 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,560 ft 475 m
on the west side
Average
1,460 ft 445 m
all land inside township boundaries
Des Moines Township spans about 270 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 | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,290 ft390 m |
| Airport (MJQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.1 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 1,446 ft441 m |
| Average of all land | 1,460 ft445 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.8 mi west to east through the middle of Des Moines Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jackson County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 234 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.6 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 7.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.6346° N, 95.0254° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Des Moines River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Jackson Municipal (MJQ) 1,446 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 56143 56150
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lakefield1,480 ft
- Hunter Township1,470 ft
- Des Moines Township1,440 ft
- Belmont Township1,420 ft
- Minneota Township1,420 ft
- Middletown Township1,400 ft
- Wisconsin Township1,400 ft
- Alpha1,380 ft
- Jackson1,380 ft
- Petersburg Township1,370 ft
- Enterprise Township1,360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota268th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Jackson County9th highest of 27
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.