Gorton Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,070 ft 330 m1,060 ft 325 m1,050 ft 320 m1,030 ft 315 m1,020 ft 310 m1,010 ft 310 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Gorton Township sits at about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

1,030 ft 315 m

few residents

Lowest

1,010 ft 310 m

on the northwest side

Highest

1,070 ft 330 m

on the south side

Average

1,030 ft 315 m

all land inside township boundaries

Gorton Township 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by	1,030 ft315 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side	1,070 ft330 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side	1,010 ft310 m
Average of all land	1,030 ft315 m

Elevation profile, west to east

5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Gorton Township.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Grant County, Minnesota, United States
Population: 46 2024 est.
Land area: 34.6 sq mi
Density: 1.3 per sq mi
Coordinates: 45.9121° N, 96.1826° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Red River → Canada
ZIP codes 2: 56248 56274

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Wendell1,150 ft
Elbow Lake Township1,120 ft
Delaware Township1,110 ft
Macsville Township1,100 ft
Herman1,070 ft
Logan Township, Grant County1,050 ft
Norcross1,040 ft
Gorton Township1,030 ft
North Ottawa Township1,020 ft
Redpath Township1,010 ft
Tintah Township1,000 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Minnesota1,987th highest of 2,692
Towns in Grant County22nd highest of 23

How we measure

Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; too few residents live here to weight by people.
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.