Hanover, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,000 ft 305 m970 ft 295 m960 ft 290 m920 ft 280 m890 ft 270 m880 ft 270 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
Hanover sits at about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
920 ft 280 m
most residents: 900–980 ft
Lowest
880 ft 270 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,000 ft 305 m
on the southeast side
Average
940 ft 285 m
all land inside city limits
Hanover spans about 120 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 880 ft270 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hanover | 920 ft280 m |
| Airport (CFE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.7 mi west of the city limits | 968 ft295 m |
| Average of all land | 940 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Wright and Hennepin counties, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 4,229 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.5 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 771 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.1558° N, 93.6664° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Buffalo Municipal (CFE) 968 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 55313 55341
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Loretto1,040 ft
- Greenfield1,010 ft
- Independence980 ft
- Corcoran970 ft
- Rockford960 ft
- Rockford Township960 ft
- Albertville960 ft
- St. Michael950 ft
- Rogers940 ft
- Hanover920 ft
- Otsego920 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,418th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Wright County34th 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.