Mahtowa, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,280 ft 390 m1,240 ft 375 m1,210 ft 370 m1,170 ft 355 m1,120 ft 345 m1,100 ft 335 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Mahtowa sits at about 1,180 ft (360 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,180 ft 360 m
most residents: 1,130–1,220 ft
Lowest
1,100 ft 335 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,280 ft 390 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,160 ft 355 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Mahtowa spans about 180 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 | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mahtowa | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Average of all land | 1,160 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 332 2020 Census
- Land area
- 10.6 sq mi
- Density
- 31 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.5738° N, 92.6319° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Kettle River → Saint Croix River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 55707 55718
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Big Lake, Carlton County1,330 ft
- Perch Lake Township1,310 ft
- Atkinson Township1,230 ft
- Skelton Township1,200 ft
- Mahtowa1,180 ft
- Twin Lakes Township1,170 ft
- Mahtowa Township1,170 ft
- Barnum1,130 ft
- Barnum Township1,100 ft
- Blackhoof Township1,090 ft
- Moose Lake Township1,090 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,250th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Carlton County18th highest of 31
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Mahtowa is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.