Good Thunder, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,020 ft 310 m1,000 ft 305 m990 ft 300 m970 ft 295 m960 ft 290 m950 ft 290 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Good Thunder sits at about 1,000 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,000 ft 305 m
most residents: 980–1,010 ft
Lowest
950 ft 290 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the southwest side
Average
990 ft 305 m
all land inside city limits
Good Thunder 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 | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 950 ft290 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Good Thunder | 990 ft300 m |
| Average of all land | 990 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 545 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 869 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0047° N, 94.0658° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 56037
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mapleton1,030 ft
- Vernon Center1,030 ft
- Sterling Township1,020 ft
- Beauford Township1,010 ft
- Vernon Center Township1,010 ft
- Good Thunder1,000 ft
- Lyra Township1,000 ft
- Decoria Township1,000 ft
- Garden City Township980 ft
- Rapidan Township980 ft
- Garden City900 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,122nd highest of 2,692
- Towns in Blue Earth County19th highest of 35
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.