Nashwauk, MN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,690 ft 515 m1,590 ft 485 m1,540 ft 470 m1,440 ft 440 m1,340 ft 410 m1,290 ft 395 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Nashwauk sits at about 1,460 ft (445 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,460 ft 445 m

most residents: 1,440–1,490 ft

Lowest

1,290 ft 395 m

on the northeast side

Highest

1,690 ft 515 m

on the west side

Average

1,500 ft 455 m

all land inside city limits

Nashwauk spans about 400 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	1,460 ft445 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side	1,690 ft515 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side	1,290 ft395 m
Town center USGS map point for Nashwauk	1,480 ft450 m
Airport (HIB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi east of the city limits	1,354 ft413 m
Average of all land	1,500 ft455 m

Elevation profile, west to east

7.5 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States
Population: 961 2024 est.
Land area: 15.2 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
Density: 63 per sq mi
Coordinates: 47.3802° N, 93.1683° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Range Regional (HIB) 1,354 ft
ZIP codes 3: 55746 55769 55775

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Hibbing1,490 ft
Keewatin1,470 ft
Nashwauk1,460 ft
Nashwauk Township1,460 ft
Marble1,420 ft
Calumet1,400 ft
Greenway Township1,380 ft
Taconite1,360 ft
Lone Pine Township1,360 ft
Bovey1,350 ft
Lawrence Township1,320 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Minnesota222nd highest of 2,692
Towns in Itasca County2nd highest of 58

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Maple Hill, St. Louis County1,650 ft
Bengal Hill1,510 ft
Blueberry Hill1,490 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, 1,190 ft at 47.3996° N, 93.1043° 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.