Sunfish Lake, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 315 m990 ft 305 m970 ft 295 m930 ft 280 m880 ft 270 m860 ft 260 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
Sunfish Lake sits at about 970 ft (295 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside city limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
970 ft 295 m
few residents
Lowest
860 ft 260 m
on the west side
Highest
1,040 ft 315 m
on the southeast side
Average
970 ft 295 m
all land inside city limits
Sunfish Lake spans about 180 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 970 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 860 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sunfish Lake | 970 ft295 m |
| Airport (MSP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi west of the city limits | 842 ft257 m |
| Average of all land | 970 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 522 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 348 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.8708° N, 93.0986° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Minneapolis-st Paul Intl/wold-chamberlain (MSP) 842 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 55118
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West St. Paul990 ft
- Sunfish Lake970 ft
- Inver Grove Heights900 ft
- St. Paul900 ft
- Eagan900 ft
- Mendota Heights890 ft
- South St. Paul830 ft
- St. Paul Park800 ft
- Lilydale800 ft
- Mendota780 ft
- Newport740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,262nd highest of 2,692
- Towns in Dakota County7th highest of 33
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buck Hill1,200 ft
- Mount Gilboa1,010 ft
- Bissels Mounds1,010 ft
- Sunset Hill960 ft
- Pilot Knob950 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the city limits; 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 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.