Leon Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m1,140 ft 350 m1,090 ft 335 m1,000 ft 305 m910 ft 275 m860 ft 265 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Leon Township sits at about 1,130 ft (345 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,130 ft 345 m
most residents: 1,040–1,190 ft
Lowest
860 ft 265 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,230 ft 375 m
on the south side
Average
1,130 ft 345 m
all land inside township boundaries
Leon Township spans about 370 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 | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 860 ft265 m |
| Average of all land | 1,130 ft345 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.3 mi west to east through the middle of Leon Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 947 2024 est.
- Land area
- 37.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 25 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.4153° N, 92.8585° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 3
- 55009 55018 55027
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Holden Township1,150 ft
- Belle Creek Township1,140 ft
- Wanamingo Township1,140 ft
- Leon Township1,130 ft
- Cannon Falls Township1,060 ft
- Warsaw Township, Goodhue County1,050 ft
- Wanamingo1,050 ft
- Dennison1,000 ft
- Stanton Township890 ft
- Randolph Township870 ft
- Cannon Falls850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,484th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Goodhue County10th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarloaf Hill1,160 ft
- Coon Hill1,050 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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, 860 ft at 44.4540° N, 92.9176° 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. All public domain.