Mound Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,720 ft 525 m1,650 ft 505 m1,620 ft 495 m1,550 ft 470 m1,480 ft 450 m1,440 ft 440 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
Mound Township sits at about 1,570 ft (480 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,570 ft 480 m
most residents: 1,540–1,650 ft
Lowest
1,440 ft 440 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,720 ft 525 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,590 ft 485 m
all land inside township boundaries
Mound Township spans about 280 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 | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,720 ft525 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Airport (LYV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.0 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,435 ft437 m |
| Average of all land | 1,590 ft485 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Mound Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Rock County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 226 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 6.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.7109° N, 96.2424° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Sioux River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Quentin Aanenson Field (LYV) 1,435 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 56134 56156
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Denver Township1,700 ft
- Springwater Township1,600 ft
- Hardwick1,600 ft
- Battle Plain Township1,570 ft
- Kenneth1,570 ft
- Mound Township1,570 ft
- Vienna Township1,510 ft
- Magnolia Township1,490 ft
- Beaver Creek Township1,490 ft
- Luverne Township1,480 ft
- Luverne1,470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota95th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Rock County7th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Mound, Rock County1,700 ft
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.