Medina, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,080 ft 330 m1,050 ft 320 m1,030 ft 315 m1,000 ft 305 m970 ft 295 m950 ft 290 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Medina sits at about 1,000 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,000 ft 305 m
most residents: 980–1,030 ft
Lowest
950 ft 290 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,080 ft 330 m
near the middle
Average
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside city limits
Medina spans about 130 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 | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 950 ft290 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Medina | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 7,209 2024 est.
- Land area
- 25.6 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 282 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.0352° N, 93.5825° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 5
- 55340 55356 55357 55359 55391
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Loretto1,040 ft
- Maple Plain1,030 ft
- Medina1,000 ft
- Independence980 ft
- Long Lake980 ft
- Corcoran970 ft
- Plymouth970 ft
- Orono960 ft
- Wayzata960 ft
- Village of Minnetonka Beach950 ft
- Maple Grove930 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,123rd highest of 2,692
- Towns in Hennepin County4th highest of 42
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Gilboa1,010 ft
- Sunset Hill960 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, 950 ft at 45.0615° N, 93.5674° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.