Fountain Prairie Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,000 ft 610 m1,920 ft 585 m1,890 ft 575 m1,810 ft 555 m1,740 ft 530 m1,700 ft 520 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
Fountain Prairie Township sits at about 1,790 ft (545 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,790 ft 545 m
most residents: 1,760–1,870 ft
Lowest
1,700 ft 520 m
on the west side
Highest
2,000 ft 610 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,810 ft 550 m
all land inside township boundaries
Fountain Prairie Township spans about 300 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 | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,000 ft610 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,700 ft520 m |
| Average of all land | 1,810 ft550 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the middle of Fountain Prairie Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Pipestone County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 235 2024 est.
- Land area
- 37.0 sq mi
- Density
- 6.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.1606° N, 96.2538° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Sioux River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 4
- 56139 56149 56164 56170
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Verdi Township1,820 ft
- Lake Benton Township1,800 ft
- Lake Benton1,800 ft
- Fountain Prairie Township1,790 ft
- Aetna Township1,790 ft
- Holland1,780 ft
- Grange Township1,760 ft
- Hope Township1,740 ft
- Ruthton1,730 ft
- Altona Township1,720 ft
- Troy Township, Pipestone County1,670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota8th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Pipestone County3rd highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Point1,970 ft
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, 1,700 ft at 44.1660° N, 96.3074° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.