Mounds View, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 285 m920 ft 280 m910 ft 275 m890 ft 270 m880 ft 270 m870 ft 265 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
Mounds View sits at about 910 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 275 m
most residents: 900–910 ft
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the south side
Highest
930 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside city limits
Mounds View spans about 60 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 | 910 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 930 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 870 ft265 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mounds View | 910 ft280 m |
| Airport (MSP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi south of the city limits | 842 ft257 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 12,841 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,165 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.1050° N, 93.2086° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Minneapolis-St Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain (MSP) 842 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 55112
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hilltop930 ft
- New Brighton920 ft
- Arden Hills910 ft
- Shoreview910 ft
- Lexington910 ft
- Mounds View910 ft
- Spring Lake Park910 ft
- Circle Pines910 ft
- Blaine900 ft
- Coon Rapids870 ft
- Fridley870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,474th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Ramsey County15th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- 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).
- 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, 870 ft at 45.0938° N, 93.2246° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.