McDonaldsville Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 285 m920 ft 280 m910 ft 280 m900 ft 275 m890 ft 270 m880 ft 270 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
McDonaldsville Township sits at about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
900 ft 275 m
most residents: 890–920 ft
Lowest
880 ft 270 m
on the west side
Highest
930 ft 285 m
on the east side
Average
910 ft 275 m
all land inside township boundaries
McDonaldsville Township spans about 50 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 | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 930 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 880 ft270 m |
| Airport (D00) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.7 mi east of the township boundaries | 954 ft291 m |
| Average of all land | 910 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of McDonaldsville Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Norman County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 157 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.5 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.2911° N, 96.5186° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Red River → Canada
- Airport
- Norman County Ada/twin Valley (D00) 954 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 56510
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lake Ida Township960 ft
- Green Meadow Township960 ft
- Rockwell Township950 ft
- Borup910 ft
- Winchester Township910 ft
- Pleasant View Township900 ft
- Ada900 ft
- McDonaldsville Township900 ft
- Mary Township890 ft
- Hegne Township890 ft
- Anthony Township880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,498th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Norman County20th highest of 32
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).
- 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.