Marsh Creek Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,240 ft 380 m1,220 ft 370 m1,210 ft 370 m1,190 ft 360 m1,160 ft 355 m1,150 ft 350 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
Marsh Creek Township sits at about 1,220 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,220 ft 370 m
most residents: 1,200–1,220 ft
Lowest
1,150 ft 350 m
on the west side
Highest
1,240 ft 380 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,210 ft 370 m
all land inside township boundaries
Marsh Creek Township spans about 90 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 | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,240 ft380 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Airport (3N8) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.5 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,246 ft380 m |
| Average of all land | 1,210 ft370 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.2 mi west to east through the middle of Marsh Creek Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Mahnomen County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 139 2024 est.
- Land area
- 37.7 sq mi
- Density
- 3.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.3323° N, 95.9714° 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 2
- 56516 56557
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Beaulieu Township1,330 ft
- Beaulieu1,280 ft
- Chief Township1,250 ft
- Rosedale Township1,250 ft
- Popple Grove Township1,230 ft
- Bejou1,220 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 Minnesota1,103rd highest of 2,692
- Towns in Mahnomen County23rd highest 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 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, 1,150 ft at 47.3263° N, 96.0512° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.