St. Peter, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 300 m920 ft 280 m890 ft 270 m830 ft 255 m770 ft 235 m740 ft 225 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
St. Peter sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 770–910 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the north side
Highest
980 ft 300 m
on the southwest side
Average
840 ft 255 m
all land inside city limits
St. Peter spans about 240 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 980 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for St. Peter | 770 ft235 m |
| Airport (MKT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.9 mi south of the city limits | 1,021 ft311 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 12,456 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,983 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.3236° N, 93.9580° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mankato Regional (MKT) 1,021 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 56082
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cleveland Township1,040 ft
- Cleveland1,040 ft
- Washington Township1,020 ft
- Kasota Township980 ft
- Oshawa Township980 ft
- Traverse Township980 ft
- Lime Township980 ft
- Lake Prairie Township960 ft
- Ottawa Township870 ft
- St. Peter850 ft
- Kasota810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,581st highest of 2,692
- Towns in Nicollet Countylowest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Klondike Hill1,180 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.