Forest Lake, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,020 ft 310 m990 ft 300 m970 ft 295 m940 ft 285 m910 ft 275 m890 ft 270 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
Forest Lake 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: 900–950 ft
Lowest
890 ft 270 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,020 ft 310 m
on the southeast side
Average
930 ft 280 m
all land inside city limits
Forest Lake spans about 130 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 southeast side | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 890 ft270 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Forest Lake | 910 ft280 m |
| Airport (25D) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 932 ft284 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Washington County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 20,700 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.5 sq mi + 5.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 678 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.2789° N, 92.9852° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Sunrise River → Saint Croix River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Forest Lake (25D) 932 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 55025 55073
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Scandia960 ft
- Chisago Lake Township930 ft
- Hugo930 ft
- Forest Lake910 ft
- Chisago City910 ft
- Martin Lake910 ft
- Centerville910 ft
- Linwood Township910 ft
- Wyoming900 ft
- Columbus900 ft
- Stacy900 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,456th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Washington County19th highest of 31
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.