Silver Creek Township, Lake County, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,060 ft 630 m1,700 ft 520 m1,520 ft 460 m1,150 ft 350 m780 ft 240 m600 ft 185 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Silver Creek Township, Lake County sits at about 940 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 285 m
most residents: 680–1,380 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the east side
Highest
2,060 ft 630 m
on the north side
Average
1,470 ft 445 m
all land inside township boundaries
Silver Creek Township, Lake County spans about 1,460 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 | 940 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 2,060 ft630 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 600 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Silver Creek Township, Lake County | 980 ft300 m |
| Airport (TWM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.7 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,073 ft327 m |
| Average of all land | 1,470 ft445 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
19 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lake County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 1,207 2024 est.
- Land area
- 295.0 sq mi + 1.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.1124° N, 91.6013° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Saint Marys River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Richard B Helgeson (TWM) 1,073 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 55614 55616
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ault Township1,510 ft
- Pequaywan Township1,490 ft
- North Star Township, St. Louis County1,480 ft
- Normanna Township1,310 ft
- Alden Township, St. Louis County1,240 ft
- Silver Bay990 ft
- Duluth Township980 ft
- Silver Creek Township, Lake County940 ft
- Two Harbors700 ft
- Beaver Bay700 ft
- Knife River640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,382nd highest of 2,692
- Towns in Lake County7th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Peabody Hill2,020 ft
- Mount Weber1,950 ft
- Gustafson Hill1,350 ft
- Pork City Hill850 ft
- Day Hill840 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.