Lac qui Parle County, MN Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, shaded from 920 ft on the east side to 1,410 ft on the southwest side
Elevation
1,410 ft 430 m1,290 ft 395 m1,230 ft 375 m1,110 ft 335 m980 ft 300 m920 ft 280 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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
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The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure
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County area
Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Lac qui Parle County averages about 1,070 ft (325 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 920 ft on the east side to 1,410 ft on the southwest side.

Average elevation
1,070 ft 325 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,410 ft 430 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
920 ft 280 m
on the east side

Lac qui Parle County spans about 490 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.

FigureElevation
Average of all land1,070 ft325 m
Highest point
Inside the county, on the southwest side
1,410 ft430 m
Lowest point
Inside the county, on the east side
920 ft280 m

Elevation profile, west to east

29 mi west to east through Madison.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, shaded from 920 ft on the east side to 1,410 ft on the southwest side
County boundary (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 40 ft (12 m).
Location
County in Minnesota, United States
Population
6,636 2024 est.
Land area
765.0 sq mi + 13.1 sq mi water
Density
8.7 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

  1. Deuel County, SD1,770 ft
  2. Grant County, SD1,450 ft
  3. Yellow Medicine County1,120 ft
  4. Big Stone County1,100 ft
  5. Lac qui Parle County1,070 ft
  6. Swift County1,070 ft
  7. Chippewa County1,030 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Peaks and hills highest inside

  • Mount Wickham1,170 ft
All 29 towns in Lac qui Parle County by typical elevation
  1. Manfred Township1,200 ft
  2. Mehurin Township1,140 ft
  3. Freeland Township1,140 ft
  4. Marietta1,130 ft
  5. Nassau1,120 ft
  6. Augusta Township1,110 ft
  7. Providence Township1,100 ft
  8. Garfield Township, Lac qui Parle County1,100 ft
  9. Madison1,090 ft
  10. Walter Township1,090 ft
  11. Maxwell Township1,080 ft
  12. Arena Township1,080 ft
  13. Hamlin Township1,070 ft
  14. Madison Township1,070 ft
  15. Yellow Bank Township1,070 ft
  16. Perry Township1,070 ft
  17. Dawson1,050 ft
  18. Riverside Township1,050 ft
  19. Boyd1,050 ft
  20. Ten Mile Lake Township1,050 ft
  21. Bellingham1,040 ft
  22. Cerro Gordo Township1,040 ft
  23. Baxter Township1,040 ft
  24. Lake Shore Township1,030 ft
  25. Louisburg1,030 ft
  26. Agassiz Township1,030 ft
  27. Lac qui Parle Township1,020 ft
  28. Hantho Township1,020 ft
  29. Camp Release Township1,010 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.