Nicollet, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 305 m1,000 ft 305 m990 ft 300 m980 ft 300 m970 ft 295 m970 ft 295 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
Nicollet sits at about 990 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
990 ft 300 m
most residents: 970–1,000 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,010 ft 305 m
on the south side
Average
990 ft 300 m
all land inside city limits
Nicollet spans about 40 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 | 990 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Nicollet | 990 ft300 m |
| Average of all land | 990 ft300 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 1,114 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,228 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2761° N, 94.1875° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 56074
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Belgrade Township990 ft
- Courtland Township990 ft
- Brighton Township990 ft
- Nicollet990 ft
- New Sweden Township980 ft
- Oshawa Township980 ft
- Granby Township980 ft
- Nicollet Township980 ft
- Judson Township970 ft
- Cambria Township970 ft
- Courtland870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,210th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Nicollet County10th highest of 18
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, 970 ft at 44.2754° N, 94.1813° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.