Stearns County, MN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,460 ft 445 m1,330 ft 405 m1,260 ft 385 m1,130 ft 345 m1,000 ft 305 m940 ft 285 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Stearns County averages about 1,200 ft (365 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 940 ft on the east side to 1,460 ft near the middle.

Average elevation

1,200 ft 365 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,460 ft 445 m

near the middle

Lowest

940 ft 285 m

on the east side

Stearns County spans about 520 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	1,200 ft365 m
Highest point Inside the county, near the middle	1,460 ft445 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side	940 ft285 m

Elevation profile, west to east

47 mi west to east through St. Cloud.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Minnesota, United States
Population: 163,997 2024 est.
Land area: 1,342.9 sq mi + 47.0 sq mi water
Density: 122 per sq mi
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Douglas County1,380 ft
Todd County1,330 ft
Pope County1,270 ft
Morrison County1,220 ft
Stearns County1,200 ft
Kandiyohi County1,170 ft
Meeker County1,130 ft
Benton County1,120 ft
Wright County1,000 ft
Sherburne County980 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Minnesota33rd highest of 87
Counties in the United States1,115th highest of 3,151

All 67 towns in Stearns County by typical elevation

Raymond Township1,340 ft
Ashley Township1,320 ft
Brooten1,310 ft
Elrosa1,310 ft
Getty Township1,300 ft
Lake Henry1,300 ft
North Fork Township1,300 ft
Lake George Township, Stearns County1,290 ft
Lake Henry Township1,280 ft
St. Anthony, Stearns County1,270 ft
Crow Lake Township1,270 ft
Meire Grove1,270 ft
Belgrade1,270 ft
Greenwald1,260 ft
Sauk Centre Township1,260 ft
St. Rosa1,260 ft
Melrose Township1,260 ft
Spring Hill Township1,260 ft
Spring Hill1,250 ft
Crow River Township1,250 ft
Sauk Centre1,250 ft
Millwood Township1,240 ft
Krain Township1,240 ft
Zion Township1,240 ft
Grove Township1,240 ft
St. Martin1,240 ft
Freeport1,230 ft
Melrose1,210 ft
Farming Township1,210 ft
Oak Township1,210 ft
Luxemburg Township1,200 ft
Albany Township1,200 ft
Collegeville Township1,200 ft
Albany1,200 ft
St. Martin Township1,200 ft
New Munich1,190 ft
St. John's University1,190 ft
Paynesville Township1,180 ft
Paynesville1,170 ft
Kimball1,170 ft
Roscoe1,170 ft
Holdingford1,170 ft
Eden Lake Township1,170 ft
Holding Township1,160 ft
Avon Township1,160 ft
St. Stephen1,160 ft
Maine Prairie Township1,140 ft
Avon1,130 ft
Cold Spring1,120 ft
Richmond1,120 ft
St. Joseph Township1,120 ft
Munson Township1,120 ft
Eden Valley partly1,120 ft
Wakefield Township1,110 ft
Brockway Township1,110 ft
Rockville1,100 ft
St. Joseph1,090 ft
Fairhaven1,090 ft
St. Wendel Township1,080 ft
Waite Park1,070 ft
Fair Haven Township1,070 ft
Sartell1,050 ft
St. Augusta1,040 ft
St. Cloud1,040 ft
Le Sauk Township1,040 ft
Clearwater partly1,000 ft
Lynden Township1,000 ft

How we measure

Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
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, 780 ft at 45.5479° N, 94.2476° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.