Union Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m1,090 ft 330 m1,010 ft 310 m870 ft 265 m720 ft 220 m650 ft 195 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
Union Township sits at about 1,090 ft (335 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,090 ft 335 m
most residents: 730–1,150 ft
Lowest
650 ft 195 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,230 ft 375 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,050 ft 320 m
all land inside township boundaries
Union Township spans about 580 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 | 1,090 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 650 ft195 m |
| Airport (LSE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 655 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 1,050 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Union Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Houston County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 315 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 12 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.7202° N, 91.4118° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- La Crosse Regional (LSE) 655 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 55921 55941
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Caledonia1,170 ft
- Caledonia Township1,150 ft
- Mayville Township1,140 ft
- Union Township1,090 ft
- Brownsville Township1,040 ft
- Crooked Creek Township1,040 ft
- Mound Prairie Township1,010 ft
- Hokah Township900 ft
- Hokah710 ft
- Brownsville700 ft
- Houston680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,661st highest of 2,692
- Towns in Houston County10th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Hammer Bluff1,260 ft
- Fairy Rock1,170 ft
- Cushings Peak1,050 ft
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.