Lake of the Woods County, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,320 ft 400 m1,250 ft 380 m1,220 ft 370 m1,160 ft 350 m1,090 ft 335 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
Lake of the Woods County averages about 1,170 ft (355 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,060 ft near the middle to 1,320 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
1,170 ft 355 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,320 ft 400 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
1,060 ft 325 m
near the middle
Lake of the Woods County spans about 260 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 | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, near the middle | 1,060 ft325 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
36 mi west to east through Baudette.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 3,797 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,297.7 sq mi + 482.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.9 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Canada
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Beltrami County1,270 ft
- Koochiching County1,220 ft
- Lake of the Woods County1,170 ft
- Roseau County1,090 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Minnesota38th highest of 87
- Counties in the United States1,160th highest of 3,151
All 4 towns in Lake of the Woods County by typical elevation
- Roosevelt partly1,150 ft
- Williams1,150 ft
- Baudette1,090 ft
- Angle Inlet1,070 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.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,030 ft at 48.8762° N, 95.0874° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.