Hennepin County, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m1,020 ft 310 m960 ft 295 m860 ft 260 m750 ft 230 m700 ft 210 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hennepin County averages about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 700 ft on the southeast side to 1,130 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
920 ft 280 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the south side
Lowest
700 ft 210 m
on the southeast side
Hennepin County spans about 430 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 700 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
27 mi west to east through Minneapolis.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 1,273,334 2024 est.
- Land area
- 554.0 sq mi + 52.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,298 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Wright County1,000 ft
- Sherburne County980 ft
- Carver County960 ft
- Scott County940 ft
- Dakota County920 ft
- Hennepin County920 ft
- Ramsey County910 ft
- Anoka County900 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Minnesota83rd highest of 87
- Counties in the United States1,560th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Gilboa1,010 ft
- Sunset Hill960 ft
All 44 towns in Hennepin County by typical elevation
- Loretto1,040 ft
- Maple Plain1,030 ft
- Greenfield1,010 ft
- Medina1,000 ft
- Independence980 ft
- Long Lake980 ft
- Corcoran970 ft
- Minnetrista970 ft
- Plymouth970 ft
- Shorewood970 ft
- Rockford partly960 ft
- St. Bonifacius960 ft
- Deephaven960 ft
- Orono960 ft
- Wayzata960 ft
- Mound960 ft
- Village of Minnetonka Beach950 ft
- Excelsior950 ft
- Woodland950 ft
- St. Anthony950 ft
- Minnetonka940 ft
- Spring Park940 ft
- Greenwood940 ft
- Rogers940 ft
- Tonka Bay930 ft
- Maple Grove930 ft
- Hanover partly920 ft
- Hopkins920 ft
- New Hope910 ft
- St. Louis Park910 ft
- Dayton890 ft
- Golden Valley890 ft
- Medicine Lake890 ft
- Osseo890 ft
- Edina890 ft
- Robbinsdale880 ft
- Crystal880 ft
- Eden Prairie880 ft
- Brooklyn Park870 ft
- Champlin860 ft
- Minneapolis850 ft
- Brooklyn Center850 ft
- Richfield850 ft
- Bloomington830 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.