Ortonville Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,140 ft 350 m1,060 ft 325 m1,020 ft 310 m940 ft 285 m860 ft 260 m820 ft 250 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ortonville Township sits at about 1,080 ft (330 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,080 ft 330 m
most residents: 1,050–1,120 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the south side
Highest
1,140 ft 350 m
on the north side
Average
1,060 ft 325 m
all land inside township boundaries
Ortonville Township spans about 320 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 | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,140 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 820 ft250 m |
| Airport (VVV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.1 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,101 ft336 m |
| Average of all land | 1,060 ft325 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.6 mi south to north through the middle of Ortonville Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Big Stone County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 88 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.4 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 6.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.3061° N, 96.4109° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Ortonville Municipal/Martinson Field (VVV) 1,101 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 56276 56278
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Otrey Township1,110 ft
- Ortonville Township1,080 ft
- Ortonville1,080 ft
- Big Stone Township1,080 ft
- Big Stone Township, SD1,080 ft
- Prior Township1,080 ft
- Yellow Bank Township1,070 ft
- Odessa Township1,060 ft
- Big Stone City, SD1,040 ft
- Lockwood Township, SD1,000 ft
- Odessa960 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,692nd highest of 2,692
- Towns in Big Stone County15th highest of 22
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, 820 ft at 45.2582° N, 96.4040° 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.