Minnetonka, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m1,060 ft 320 m1,020 ft 310 m960 ft 290 m890 ft 270 m860 ft 260 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Minnetonka sits at about 940 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 290 m
most residents: 900–1,000 ft
Lowest
860 ft 260 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the east side
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside city limits
Minnetonka spans about 270 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 | 940 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 860 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Minnetonka | 900 ft275 m |
| Airport (MSP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.8 mi east of the city limits | 842 ft257 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 52,651 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.9 sq mi + 1.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,955 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9133° N, 93.5033° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Minneapolis-st Paul Intl/wold-chamberlain (MSP) 842 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 55305 55343 55345 55391
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Shorewood970 ft
- Deephaven960 ft
- Wayzata960 ft
- Chanhassen950 ft
- Village of Minnetonka Beach950 ft
- Excelsior950 ft
- Woodland950 ft
- Minnetonka940 ft
- Greenwood940 ft
- Tonka Bay930 ft
- Eden Prairie880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,358th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Hennepin County20th highest of 42
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buck Hill1,200 ft
- Mount Gilboa1,010 ft
- Sunset Hill960 ft
- Pilot Knob950 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).
- 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.