Glencoe, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 315 m1,020 ft 310 m1,020 ft 310 m1,000 ft 305 m990 ft 300 m980 ft 300 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Glencoe sits at about 1,010 ft (310 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,010 ft 310 m
most residents: 1,000–1,020 ft
Lowest
980 ft 300 m
on the east side
Highest
1,040 ft 315 m
on the west side
Average
1,010 ft 310 m
all land inside city limits
Glencoe spans about 60 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 | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 980 ft300 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Glencoe | 990 ft305 m |
| Airport (GYL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.9 mi east of the city limits | 993 ft303 m |
| Average of all land | 1,010 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in McLeod County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 5,659 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,786 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.7691° N, 94.1516° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Glencoe Municipal (GYL) 993 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 55336
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rich Valley Township1,040 ft
- Sumter Township1,030 ft
- Biscay1,020 ft
- Glencoe Township1,020 ft
- Glencoe1,010 ft
- New Auburn1,010 ft
- New Auburn Township1,010 ft
- Green Isle Township1,000 ft
- Helen Township1,000 ft
- Plato990 ft
- Bergen Township990 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,082nd highest of 2,692
- Towns in McLeod County19th highest of 23
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.