McLeod County, MN Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of McLeod County, Minnesota, shaded from 950 ft on the east side to 1,140 ft on the northwest side
Elevation
1,150 ft 350 m1,100 ft 335 m1,070 ft 325 m1,030 ft 315 m980 ft 300 m950 ft 290 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
⤓ Download this map
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.
County area
Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

McLeod County averages about 1,040 ft (315 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 950 ft on the east side to 1,140 ft on the northwest side.

Average elevation
1,040 ft 315 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,140 ft 350 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
950 ft 290 m
on the east side

McLeod County spans about 190 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

FigureElevation
Average of all land1,040 ft315 m
Highest point
Inside the county, on the northwest side
1,140 ft350 m
Lowest point
Inside the county, on the east side
950 ft290 m

Elevation profile, west to east

24 mi west to east through Hutchinson.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of McLeod County, Minnesota, shaded from 950 ft on the east side to 1,140 ft on the northwest side
County boundary (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 20 ft (6 m).
Location
County in Minnesota, United States
Population
36,780 2024 est.
Land area
491.5 sq mi + 14.1 sq mi water
Density
75 per sq mi
Time zone
Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region
Central Lowland
Drains to
Gulf of America
⤓ Download this map

WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

  1. Meeker County1,130 ft
  2. Renville County1,060 ft
  3. McLeod County1,040 ft
  4. Sibley County1,000 ft
  5. Wright County1,000 ft
  6. Carver County960 ft

Rankings by average elevation

All 23 towns in McLeod County by typical elevation
  1. Acoma Township1,080 ft
  2. Hutchinson Township1,080 ft
  3. Hutchinson1,070 ft
  4. Lynn Township1,070 ft
  5. Stewart1,060 ft
  6. Hassan Valley Township1,060 ft
  7. Silver Lake1,050 ft
  8. Hale Township1,050 ft
  9. Round Grove Township1,040 ft
  10. Collins Township1,040 ft
  11. Rich Valley Township1,040 ft
  12. Sumter Township1,030 ft
  13. Brownton1,030 ft
  14. Biscay1,020 ft
  15. Penn Township1,020 ft
  16. Winsted1,020 ft
  17. Winsted Township1,020 ft
  18. Glencoe Township1,020 ft
  19. Glencoe1,010 ft
  20. Helen Township1,000 ft
  21. Plato990 ft
  22. Bergen Township990 ft
  23. Lester Prairie980 ft
How we measure
  • Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
  • Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
  • Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
  • Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
  • 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.