Washington Township, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,140 ft 345 m1,100 ft 335 m1,080 ft 330 m1,040 ft 315 m1,000 ft 305 m980 ft 300 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Washington Township sits at about 1,020 ft (310 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,020 ft 310 m
most residents: 980–1,050 ft
Lowest
980 ft 300 m
on the south side
Highest
1,140 ft 345 m
on the east side
Average
1,030 ft 315 m
all land inside township boundaries
Washington Township spans about 160 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 | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 980 ft300 m |
| Airport (MKT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,021 ft311 m |
| Average of all land | 1,030 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the middle of Washington Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Le Sueur County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 801 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.2 sq mi + 3.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 65 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2598° N, 93.8493° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mankato Regional (MKT) 1,021 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 56017 56063
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Madison Lake1,040 ft
- Cleveland Township1,040 ft
- Cleveland1,040 ft
- Jamestown Township1,040 ft
- Elysian Township1,030 ft
- Washington Township1,020 ft
- Eagle Lake1,010 ft
- Kasota Township980 ft
- Lime Township980 ft
- St. Peter850 ft
- Kasota810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,054th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Le Sueur County14th highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Klondike Hill1,180 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.