Houston County, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,340 ft 405 m1,160 ft 355 m1,070 ft 325 m890 ft 270 m710 ft 215 m620 ft 190 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
Houston County averages about 1,010 ft (305 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 620 ft on the southeast side to 1,340 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
1,010 ft 305 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,340 ft 405 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
on the southeast side
Houston County spans about 720 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 | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,340 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
23 mi west to east through La Crescent.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 18,352 2024 est.
- Land area
- 552.1 sq mi + 16.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 33 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
- Fillmore County1,190 ft
- Winneshiek County, IA1,140 ft
- Vernon County, WI1,090 ft
- Winona County1,090 ft
- Allamakee County, IA1,010 ft
- Houston County1,010 ft
- La Crosse County, WI900 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Minnesota70th highest of 87
- Counties in the United States1,388th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Black Hammer Bluff1,260 ft
- Fairy Rock1,170 ft
- Cushings Peak1,050 ft
All 24 towns in Houston County by typical elevation
- Spring Grove1,310 ft
- Wilmington Township1,170 ft
- Caledonia1,170 ft
- Spring Grove Township1,160 ft
- Caledonia Township1,150 ft
- Eitzen1,140 ft
- Mayville Township1,140 ft
- Black Hammer Township1,140 ft
- Winnebago Township1,100 ft
- Union Township1,090 ft
- Yucatan Township1,050 ft
- Sheldon Township1,040 ft
- Brownsville Township1,040 ft
- Crooked Creek Township1,040 ft
- Mound Prairie Township1,010 ft
- La Crescent Township920 ft
- Jefferson Township910 ft
- Houston Township900 ft
- Hokah Township900 ft
- Money Creek Township890 ft
- Hokah710 ft
- Brownsville700 ft
- La Crescent690 ft
- Houston680 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.