Lakeville, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,190 ft 360 m1,120 ft 340 m1,080 ft 330 m1,010 ft 310 m950 ft 290 m910 ft 280 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
Lakeville sits at about 1,000 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,000 ft 305 m
most residents: 930–1,080 ft
Lowest
910 ft 280 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,190 ft 360 m
on the west side
Average
1,010 ft 310 m
all land inside city limits
Lakeville spans about 280 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 | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 910 ft280 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lakeville | 970 ft295 m |
| Airport (LVN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 960 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,010 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 77,971 2024 est.
- Land area
- 37.0 sq mi + 1.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,109 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6497° N, 93.2427° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Airlake (LVN) 960 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 55024 55044 55068
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Elko New Market1,130 ft
- New Market Township1,060 ft
- Lakeville1,000 ft
- Eureka Township990 ft
- Credit River990 ft
- Apple Valley960 ft
- Rosemount960 ft
- Burnsville950 ft
- Castle Rock Township940 ft
- Farmington910 ft
- Empire910 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,121st highest of 2,692
- Towns in Dakota Countyhighest of 33
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buck Hill1,200 ft
- Mount Gilboa1,010 ft
- Pilot Knob950 ft
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).
- 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, 910 ft at 44.7140° N, 93.1593° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.