Golden Valley, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m910 ft 275 m870 ft 265 m840 ft 255 m820 ft 250 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
Golden Valley sits at about 890 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 270 m
most residents: 860–920 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the southeast side
Highest
960 ft 295 m
on the southwest side
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside city limits
Golden Valley spans about 140 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 | 890 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 960 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 820 ft250 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Golden Valley | 860 ft260 m |
| Airport (MSP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi southeast of the city limits | 842 ft257 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 21,263 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.2 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,084 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.0097° N, 93.3491° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Minneapolis-st Paul Intl/wold-chamberlain (MSP) 842 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 55416 55422 55426 55427
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Plymouth970 ft
- Columbia Heights930 ft
- Hilltop930 ft
- New Hope910 ft
- St. Louis Park910 ft
- Golden Valley890 ft
- Medicine Lake890 ft
- Robbinsdale880 ft
- Crystal880 ft
- Minneapolis850 ft
- Brooklyn Center850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,510th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Hennepin County30th highest of 42
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Gilboa1,010 ft
- Sunset Hill960 ft
- Pilot Knob950 ft
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.