Two Harbors, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 320 m930 ft 285 m880 ft 270 m770 ft 235 m660 ft 200 m600 ft 185 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
Two Harbors sits at about 700 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
700 ft 210 m
most residents: 650–790 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the south side
Highest
1,040 ft 320 m
on the northwest side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside city limits
Two Harbors spans about 440 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 | 700 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,040 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 600 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Two Harbors | 670 ft205 m |
| Airport (TWM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.3 mi northwest of the city limits | 1,073 ft327 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lake County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 3,456 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,056 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.0227° N, 91.6707° 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 1
- 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
- Gnesen Township1,380 ft
- Normanna Township1,310 ft
- Alden Township, St. Louis County1,240 ft
- Lakewood Township1,150 ft
- Duluth Township980 ft
- Silver Creek Township, Lake County940 ft
- Two Harbors700 ft
- Knife River640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,682nd highest of 2,692
- Towns in Lake County8th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gustafson Hill1,350 ft
- Pork City Hill850 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.