Independence, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m1,030 ft 315 m1,010 ft 305 m970 ft 295 m930 ft 280 m910 ft 275 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Independence sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 950–1,020 ft
Lowest
910 ft 275 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the northeast side
Average
980 ft 300 m
all land inside city limits
Independence spans about 160 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 910 ft275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Independence | 970 ft295 m |
| Average of all land | 980 ft300 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 3,710 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.4 sq mi + 2.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 114 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.0252° N, 93.7075° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 3
- 55328 55357 55359
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Loretto1,040 ft
- Maple Plain1,030 ft
- Greenfield1,010 ft
- Medina1,000 ft
- Independence980 ft
- Minnetrista970 ft
- Rockford960 ft
- Orono960 ft
- Mound960 ft
- Delano940 ft
- Franklin Township940 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,224th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Hennepin County5th highest of 42
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.