Sandsville Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 255 m830 ft 255 m830 ft 250 m820 ft 250 m810 ft 245 m810 ft 245 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
Sandsville Township sits at about 820 ft (250 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
820 ft 250 m
few residents
Lowest
810 ft 245 m
on the northwest side
Highest
830 ft 255 m
on the southeast side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside township boundaries
Sandsville Township is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 820 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 830 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 810 ft245 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Polk County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 46 2024 est.
- Land area
- 27.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.1297° N, 96.9444° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Red River → Canada
- ZIP codes 3
- 56710 56721 56762
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Warren860 ft
- Tabor Township840 ft
- Farley Township840 ft
- Boxville Township840 ft
- Northland Township, Polk County820 ft
- Esther Township820 ft
- Sandsville Township820 ft
- Higdem Township810 ft
- Vega Township810 ft
- Alvarado810 ft
- Oak Park Township810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,620th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Polk County72nd highest of 73
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).
- 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, 810 ft at 48.1721° N, 96.9968° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.