Murray Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,620 ft 495 m1,570 ft 480 m1,550 ft 475 m1,510 ft 460 m1,470 ft 450 m1,450 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
Murray Township sits at about 1,520 ft (465 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,520 ft 465 m
most residents: 1,500–1,560 ft
Lowest
1,450 ft 440 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,620 ft 495 m
on the east side
Average
1,520 ft 465 m
all land inside township boundaries
Murray Township spans about 170 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 | 1,520 ft465 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Airport (DVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.6 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,623 ft495 m |
| Average of all land | 1,520 ft465 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Murray Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Murray County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 161 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.6 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0700° N, 95.6514° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Des Moines River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Slayton Municipal (DVP) 1,623 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 56114 56123 56172
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Slayton1,600 ft
- Mason Township1,560 ft
- Lime Lake Township1,540 ft
- Lake Sarah Township1,540 ft
- Murray Township1,520 ft
- Dovray1,520 ft
- Currie1,510 ft
- The Lakes1,500 ft
- Shetek Township1,500 ft
- Des Moines River Township1,490 ft
- Dovray Township1,460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota135th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Murray County21st highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Poverty Hill1,730 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).
- 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, 1,450 ft at 44.0249° N, 95.5943° 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.