Fairmont Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,240 ft 380 m1,210 ft 370 m1,200 ft 365 m1,160 ft 355 m1,130 ft 345 m1,120 ft 340 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
Fairmont Township sits at about 1,170 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,170 ft 355 m
most residents: 1,140–1,230 ft
Lowest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,240 ft 380 m
on the west side
Average
1,160 ft 355 m
all land inside township boundaries
Fairmont Township spans about 120 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 | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,240 ft380 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Airport (FRM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi north of the township boundaries | 1,162 ft354 m |
| Average of all land | 1,160 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.0 mi west to east through the middle of Fairmont Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Martin County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 308 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.8 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 15 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.6086° N, 94.4327° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Blue Earth River → Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Fairmont Municipal (FRM) 1,162 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 56031 56039
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tenhassen Township1,250 ft
- Rolling Green Township1,230 ft
- Silver Lake Township1,210 ft
- Fraser Township1,190 ft
- Fairmont1,180 ft
- Fairmont Township1,170 ft
- East Chain Township1,160 ft
- Rutland Township1,150 ft
- Northrop1,140 ft
- Pleasant Prairie Township1,130 ft
- Granada1,120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,299th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Martin County20th highest of 29
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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,120 ft at 43.6721° N, 94.3707° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.