Plainview Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,200 ft 365 m1,110 ft 340 m1,070 ft 325 m970 ft 295 m880 ft 270 m840 ft 255 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
Plainview Township sits at about 1,140 ft (345 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,140 ft 345 m
most residents: 1,090–1,170 ft
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the east side
Highest
1,200 ft 365 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,130 ft 345 m
all land inside township boundaries
Plainview Township spans about 360 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 | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 840 ft255 m |
| Average of all land | 1,130 ft345 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Plainview Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Wabasha County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 465 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.4 sq mi
- Density
- 14 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.1433° N, 92.1328° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 55964
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Viola Township1,240 ft
- Plainview1,150 ft
- Watopa Township1,140 ft
- Plainview Township1,140 ft
- Highland Township1,130 ft
- Elba Township1,130 ft
- Quincy Township1,120 ft
- Elgin Township1,090 ft
- Elgin1,070 ft
- Whitewater Township940 ft
- Elba750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,434th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Wabasha County3rd highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Jacobs Hill1,208 ft
- Fisher Hill1,200 ft
- Whiskey Hill1,160 ft
- Foley Mound980 ft
- Murphys Cut Rock Structure670 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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.