Elbow Lake Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,190 ft 365 m1,160 ft 350 m1,140 ft 345 m1,100 ft 335 m1,070 ft 325 m1,050 ft 320 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
Elbow Lake Township sits at about 1,120 ft (340 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,120 ft 340 m
most residents: 1,080–1,160 ft
Lowest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,190 ft 365 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,120 ft 340 m
all land inside township boundaries
Elbow Lake Township spans about 140 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 | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,190 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Airport (Y63) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.5 mi east of the township boundaries | 1,206 ft368 m |
| Average of all land | 1,120 ft340 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Elbow Lake Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Grant County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 126 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.9707° N, 96.0698° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Red River → Canada
- Airport
- Elbow Lake Muni/pride of the Prairie (Y63) 1,206 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 56531 56590
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sanford Township1,210 ft
- Elbow Lake1,210 ft
- Lien Township1,200 ft
- Pomme de Terre Township1,190 ft
- Wendell1,150 ft
- Stony Brook Township1,140 ft
- Elbow Lake Township1,120 ft
- Delaware Township1,110 ft
- Lawrence Township, Grant County1,060 ft
- Gorton Township1,030 ft
- North Ottawa Township1,020 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,523rd highest of 2,692
- Towns in Grant County15th 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.