Foster Township, Big Stone County, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,150 ft 350 m1,110 ft 335 m1,080 ft 330 m1,040 ft 315 m990 ft 300 m970 ft 295 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
Foster Township, Big Stone County sits at about 1,100 ft (335 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,100 ft 335 m
most residents: 990–1,120 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the east side
Highest
1,150 ft 350 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,100 ft 335 m
all land inside township boundaries
Foster Township, Big Stone County spans about 180 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 | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Foster Township, Big Stone County | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Average of all land | 1,100 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Big Stone County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 118 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.1 sq mi + 3.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.9 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.4164° N, 96.6759° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 56211 56225
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wilmot, SD1,200 ft
- Garfield Township, Roberts County, SD1,180 ft
- Corona, SD1,170 ft
- Lake Township, Roberts County, SD1,160 ft
- Melrose Township, SD1,130 ft
- Browns Valley Township1,110 ft
- Foster Township, Big Stone County1,100 ft
- Geneseo Township, SD1,100 ft
- Beardsley1,100 ft
- Prior Township1,080 ft
- Lockwood Township, SD1,000 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,604th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Big Stone County12th highest of 22
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.