Otter Tail County, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,790 ft 545 m1,600 ft 485 m1,500 ft 455 m1,300 ft 400 m1,110 ft 340 m1,010 ft 310 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Otter Tail County averages about 1,360 ft (415 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,010 ft on the southwest side to 1,790 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,360 ft 415 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,790 ft 545 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the southwest side
Otter Tail County spans about 780 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,010 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
54 mi west to east through Fergus Falls.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 60,884 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,971.6 sq mi + 252.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 31 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Canada 54%, Gulf of America 46%
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Becker County1,450 ft
- Douglas County1,380 ft
- Otter Tail County1,360 ft
- Wadena County1,350 ft
- Todd County1,330 ft
- Grant County1,140 ft
- Clay County1,030 ft
- Wilkin County990 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Minnesota15th highest of 87
- Counties in the United States951st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Inspiration Peak1,729 ft
- Black Peak1,650 ft
All 84 towns in Otter Tail County by typical elevation
- Folden Township1,500 ft
- Effington Township1,480 ft
- Parkers Prairie Township1,470 ft
- Parkers Prairie1,470 ft
- Butler Township1,470 ft
- Urbank1,460 ft
- Elmo Township1,450 ft
- Leaf Mountain Township1,450 ft
- Paddock Township1,450 ft
- Eastern Township1,440 ft
- Henning1,430 ft
- Woodside Township, Otter Tail County1,430 ft
- Homestead Township1,430 ft
- Inman Township1,430 ft
- Blowers Township1,420 ft
- New York Mills1,410 ft
- Henning Township1,410 ft
- Candor Township1,410 ft
- Oak Valley Township1,400 ft
- Corliss Township1,400 ft
- Maplewood Township1,400 ft
- Newton Township1,400 ft
- Deer Creek Township1,400 ft
- Nidaros Township1,400 ft
- Vining1,390 ft
- Bluffton Township1,390 ft
- Deer Creek1,390 ft
- Vergas1,390 ft
- Dora Township1,380 ft
- Hobart Township1,380 ft
- Edna Township1,370 ft
- Richville1,370 ft
- Dent1,370 ft
- Gorman Township1,370 ft
- Perham1,370 ft
- Friberg Township1,370 ft
- Compton Township1,370 ft
- Leaf Lake Township1,370 ft
- Perham Township1,360 ft
- Pine Lake Township1,360 ft
- Battle Lake1,360 ft
- Dalton1,360 ft
- Eagle Lake Township1,360 ft
- Bluffton1,360 ft
- Dead Lake Township1,360 ft
- Clitherall1,350 ft
- Clitherall Township1,350 ft
- Girard Township1,350 ft
- Wadena partly1,350 ft
- Lida Township1,350 ft
- Sverdrup Township1,350 ft
- Maine Township1,350 ft
- Ottertail1,340 ft
- Otto Township1,340 ft
- Scambler Township1,340 ft
- Dunn Township1,340 ft
- Amor Township1,340 ft
- Star Lake Township1,340 ft
- Erhards Grove Township1,340 ft
- Rush Lake Township1,340 ft
- Pelican Township1,340 ft
- Underwood1,340 ft
- Everts Township1,330 ft
- Pelican Rapids1,330 ft
- Otter Tail Township1,330 ft
- Norwegian Grove Township1,330 ft
- Tordenskjold Township1,330 ft
- Trondhjem Township1,320 ft
- St. Olaf Township1,310 ft
- Erhard1,290 ft
- Oscar Township1,280 ft
- Dane Prairie Township1,280 ft
- Elizabeth Township1,280 ft
- Aurdal Township1,280 ft
- Elizabeth1,260 ft
- Fergus Falls Township1,250 ft
- Fergus Falls1,230 ft
- Tumuli Township1,210 ft
- Rothsay partly1,210 ft
- Buse Township1,180 ft
- Carlisle Township1,170 ft
- Aastad Township1,160 ft
- Orwell Township1,100 ft
- Western Township1,090 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.