Prairie Lake Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,370 ft 415 m1,340 ft 410 m1,320 ft 405 m1,290 ft 395 m1,260 ft 385 m1,250 ft 380 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
Prairie Lake Township sits at about 1,280 ft (390 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,280 ft 390 m
few residents
Lowest
1,250 ft 380 m
on the west side
Highest
1,370 ft 415 m
on the west side
Average
1,280 ft 390 m
all land inside township boundaries
Prairie Lake Township spans about 120 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,370 ft415 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Average of all land | 1,280 ft390 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Prairie Lake Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 45 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.6 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.7921° N, 92.9786° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 55736 55798
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Eagle Township1,310 ft
- Wright1,310 ft
- Beseman Township1,310 ft
- Cromwell1,310 ft
- Fine Lakes Township1,300 ft
- Prairie Lake Township1,280 ft
- Halden Township1,270 ft
- Floodwood Township1,270 ft
- Balsam Township, Aitkin County1,260 ft
- Haugen Township1,260 ft
- Floodwood1,260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota834th highest of 2,692
- Towns in St. Louis County86th highest of 103
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarloaf1,490 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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. All public domain.