Elk River, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,110 ft 340 m1,040 ft 320 m1,010 ft 310 m950 ft 290 m880 ft 270 m850 ft 260 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
Elk River sits at about 910 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 280 m
most residents: 880–980 ft
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,110 ft 340 m
on the north side
Average
940 ft 285 m
all land inside city limits
Elk River spans about 260 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 | 910 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 850 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elk River | 890 ft270 m |
| Average of all land | 940 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Sherburne County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 27,606 2024 est.
- Land area
- 42.3 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 652 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.3039° N, 93.5672° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 55330
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Livonia Township1,000 ft
- Albertville960 ft
- St. Michael950 ft
- Big Lake940 ft
- Rogers940 ft
- Big Lake Township930 ft
- Otsego920 ft
- Nowthen920 ft
- Elk River910 ft
- Dayton890 ft
- Ramsey880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,446th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Sherburne Countylowest of 15
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Hill1,090 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.