Lanesboro, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 355 m1,080 ft 330 m1,040 ft 315 m940 ft 290 m850 ft 260 m810 ft 245 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Lanesboro sits at about 880 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
880 ft 265 m
most residents: 830–1,070 ft
Lowest
810 ft 245 m
on the east side
Highest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the southeast side
Average
970 ft 295 m
all land inside city limits
Lanesboro spans about 360 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 | 880 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 810 ft245 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lanesboro | 850 ft260 m |
| Average of all land | 970 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 712 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 470 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.7208° N, 91.9768° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Root River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 55949
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fountain1,300 ft
- Preston Township1,160 ft
- Amherst Township1,150 ft
- Arendahl Township1,120 ft
- Holt Township1,100 ft
- Pilot Mound Township1,070 ft
- Carrolton Township1,050 ft
- Preston980 ft
- Lanesboro880 ft
- Whalan790 ft
- Peterson750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,544th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Fillmore County34th highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Shelton Hill1,314 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, 810 ft at 43.7212° N, 91.9674° 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.