Emerald Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,150 ft 350 m1,130 ft 345 m1,120 ft 340 m1,100 ft 335 m1,080 ft 330 m1,070 ft 325 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
Emerald Township sits at about 1,110 ft (335 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,110 ft 335 m
most residents: 1,090–1,120 ft
Lowest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the west side
Highest
1,140 ft 350 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,100 ft 335 m
all land inside township boundaries
Emerald Township spans about 70 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 | 1,110 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,140 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Airport (SBU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,107 ft337 m |
| Average of all land | 1,100 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Emerald Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Faribault County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 209 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.9 sq mi
- Density
- 5.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.6340° N, 93.9508° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Blue Earth River → Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Blue Earth Municipal (SBU) 1,107 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 56013 56014 56033
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bricelyn1,180 ft
- Brush Creek Township1,150 ft
- Frost1,130 ft
- Rome Township1,120 ft
- Elmore Township1,110 ft
- Emerald Township1,110 ft
- Walnut Lake Township1,100 ft
- Barber Township1,100 ft
- Prescott Township1,090 ft
- Blue Earth City Township1,080 ft
- Blue Earth1,080 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,589th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Faribault County16th highest of 31
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.