Lucas Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,120 ft 340 m1,100 ft 335 m1,100 ft 335 m1,080 ft 330 m1,060 ft 325 m1,050 ft 320 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
Lucas Township sits at about 1,080 ft (330 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,080 ft 330 m
most residents: 1,060–1,090 ft
Lowest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,080 ft 330 m
all land inside township boundaries
Lucas Township spans about 70 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 | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Average of all land | 1,080 ft330 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Lucas Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lyon County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 204 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.7 sq mi + 1.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 6.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5925° N, 95.6695° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 56229
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fairview Township, Lyon County1,120 ft
- Vallers Township1,100 ft
- Stanley Township1,100 ft
- Lucas Township1,080 ft
- Cottonwood1,080 ft
- Normania Township1,070 ft
- Posen Township1,070 ft
- Wood Lake1,060 ft
- Sandnes Township1,050 ft
- Wood Lake Township1,050 ft
- Hanley Falls1,050 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,725th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Lyon County30th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Middag Knutea980 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, 1,040 ft at 44.6160° N, 95.6101° 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.