Tansem Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,550 ft 470 m1,440 ft 440 m1,390 ft 425 m1,290 ft 395 m1,190 ft 360 m1,130 ft 345 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Tansem Township sits at about 1,350 ft (415 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,350 ft 415 m
most residents: 1,230–1,480 ft
Lowest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,550 ft 470 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,330 ft 405 m
all land inside township boundaries
Tansem Township spans about 420 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 | 1,350 ft415 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,550 ft470 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tansem Township | 1,370 ft415 m |
| Average of all land | 1,330 ft405 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Clay County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 271 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.5 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 7.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.6752° N, 96.2362° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Red River → Canada
- ZIP codes 3
- 56514 56549 56572
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cormorant Township1,400 ft
- Tansem Township1,350 ft
- Parke Township1,350 ft
- Scambler Township1,340 ft
- Pelican Township1,340 ft
- Pelican Rapids1,330 ft
- Norwegian Grove Township1,330 ft
- Skree Township1,130 ft
- Prairie View Township1,120 ft
- Humboldt Township1,100 ft
- Barnesville1,030 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota518th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Clay Countyhighest of 42
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.