McKinley, MN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,640 ft 500 m1,580 ft 480 m1,550 ft 475 m1,490 ft 455 m1,430 ft 435 m1,400 ft 430 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

McKinley sits at about 1,480 ft (450 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,480 ft 450 m

most residents: 1,460–1,530 ft

Lowest

1,400 ft 430 m

on the southeast side

Highest

1,640 ft 500 m

on the north side

Average

1,460 ft 445 m

all land inside city limits

McKinley spans about 240 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	1,480 ft450 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side	1,640 ft500 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side	1,400 ft430 m
Town center USGS map point for McKinley	1,480 ft450 m
Airport (EVM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi southwest of the city limits	1,376 ft419 m
Average of all land	1,460 ft445 m

Elevation profile, south to north

1.6 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States
Population: 102 2024 est.
Land area: 1.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
Density: 71 per sq mi
Coordinates: 47.5127° N, 92.4110° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Superior Upland
Drains to: Saint Louis River
Airport: Eveleth/Virginia Municipal (EVM) 1,376 ft
ZIP codes 1: 55741

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Eveleth1,610 ft
Gilbert1,560 ft
McKinley1,480 ft
Wuori Township1,470 ft
Aurora1,460 ft
Biwabik1,460 ft
Leonidas1,450 ft
White Township1,450 ft
Virginia1,440 ft
Fayal Township1,390 ft
Biwabik Township1,380 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Minnesota183rd highest of 2,692
Towns in St. Louis County14th highest of 103

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Pike Mountain1,934 ft
Lookout Mountain, St. Louis County1,850 ft
Moose Mountain, St. Louis County1,660 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).
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, 1,260 ft at 47.5199° N, 92.3971° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.