Koochiching County, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,670 ft 510 m1,520 ft 465 m1,440 ft 440 m1,290 ft 395 m1,140 ft 345 m1,060 ft 325 m
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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
Koochiching County averages about 1,220 ft (370 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,060 ft on the northwest side to 1,670 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
1,220 ft 370 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,670 ft 510 m
on the east side
Lowest
1,060 ft 325 m
on the northwest side
Koochiching County spans about 610 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 | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 1,670 ft510 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,060 ft325 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
49 mi south to north through International Falls.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 11,594 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3,104.7 sq mi + 51.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.7 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland 98%
- Drains to
- Canada
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- St. Louis County1,380 ft
- Itasca County1,360 ft
- Beltrami County1,270 ft
- Koochiching County1,220 ft
- Lake of the Woods County1,170 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Minnesota30th highest of 87
- Counties in the United States1,097th highest of 3,151
All 7 towns in Koochiching County by typical elevation
- Northome1,430 ft
- Mizpah1,380 ft
- Nett Lake partly1,300 ft
- Big Falls1,210 ft
- International Falls1,120 ft
- Ranier1,120 ft
- Littlefork1,120 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; 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.