Mahnomen, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,220 ft 370 m1,210 ft 370 m1,210 ft 370 m1,200 ft 365 m1,190 ft 360 m1,180 ft 360 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
Mahnomen sits at about 1,210 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,210 ft 370 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
1,180 ft 360 m
on the south side
Highest
1,220 ft 370 m
on the north side
Average
1,210 ft 370 m
all land inside city limits
Mahnomen spans about 40 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 | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mahnomen | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Airport (3N8) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.3 mi southeast of the city limits | 1,246 ft380 m |
| Average of all land | 1,210 ft370 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Mahnomen County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 1,216 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,148 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.3152° N, 95.9687° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wild Rice River → Red River → Canada
- Airport
- Mahnomen County (3N8) 1,246 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 56557
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Midway1,340 ft
- Beaulieu Township1,330 ft
- Beaulieu1,280 ft
- Chief Township1,250 ft
- Rosedale Township1,250 ft
- Popple Grove Township1,230 ft
- Marsh Creek Township1,220 ft
- Riverland1,210 ft
- Pembina Township1,210 ft
- Mahnomen1,210 ft
- Waukon Township1,170 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,134th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Mahnomen Countylowest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frenchmans Bluff1,350 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).
- 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.