Meriden Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,220 ft 375 m1,190 ft 365 m1,180 ft 360 m1,150 ft 350 m1,120 ft 340 m1,100 ft 335 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
Meriden Township sits at about 1,150 ft (350 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,150 ft 350 m
most residents: 1,120–1,180 ft
Lowest
1,100 ft 335 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,220 ft 375 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,150 ft 350 m
all land inside township boundaries
Meriden Township spans about 120 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 | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,220 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Meriden Township | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Airport (OWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 1,145 ft349 m |
| Average of all land | 1,150 ft350 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Steele County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 598 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 17 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0741° N, 93.3869° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Owatonna Degner Regional (OWA) 1,145 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 55060 56093
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Owatonna Township1,210 ft
- Owatonna1,200 ft
- Clinton Falls Township1,190 ft
- Lemond Township1,170 ft
- Otisco Township1,150 ft
- Meriden Township1,150 ft
- Waseca1,140 ft
- Blooming Grove Township1,140 ft
- Woodville Township1,130 ft
- Deerfield Township1,130 ft
- Wilton Township1,110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,400th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Steele County15th highest of 17
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.