Rush Lake Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,420 ft 435 m1,400 ft 425 m1,380 ft 420 m1,360 ft 415 m1,330 ft 405 m1,320 ft 405 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
Rush Lake Township sits at about 1,340 ft (410 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,340 ft 410 m
most residents: 1,330–1,360 ft
Lowest
1,320 ft 405 m
on the south side
Highest
1,420 ft 435 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,350 ft 410 m
all land inside township boundaries
Rush Lake Township spans about 100 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 | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,320 ft405 m |
| Airport (16D) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi north of the township boundaries | 1,376 ft419 m |
| Average of all land | 1,350 ft410 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Rush Lake Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 1,057 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.7 sq mi + 8.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 40 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.5004° N, 95.5915° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Otter Tail River → Red River → Canada
- Airport
- Perham Municipal (16D) 1,376 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 56571 56573 56576
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Richville1,370 ft
- Dent1,370 ft
- Perham1,370 ft
- Leaf Lake Township1,370 ft
- Perham Township1,360 ft
- Pine Lake Township1,360 ft
- Dead Lake Township1,360 ft
- Ottertail1,340 ft
- Otto Township1,340 ft
- Rush Lake Township1,340 ft
- Otter Tail Township1,330 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota579th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Otter Tail County59th highest of 82
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Peak1,650 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.