Wells 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 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
Wells Township sits at about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
most residents: 990–1,080 ft
Lowest
980 ft 300 m
on the south side
Highest
1,140 ft 345 m
on the west side
Average
1,060 ft 320 m
all land inside township boundaries
Wells 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 | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 980 ft300 m |
| Airport (FBL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.1 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 1,060 ft323 m |
| Average of all land | 1,060 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Wells Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Rice County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 1,585 2024 est.
- Land area
- 25.6 sq mi + 3.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 62 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.3194° N, 93.3449° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Cannon River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Faribault Muni-liz Wall Strohfus Field (FBL) 1,060 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 55021
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Walcott Township1,150 ft
- Cannon City Township1,130 ft
- Shieldsville Township1,110 ft
- Erin Township1,090 ft
- Morristown Township1,060 ft
- Forest Township1,060 ft
- Faribault1,040 ft
- Wells Township1,030 ft
- Warsaw Township1,010 ft
- Morristown1,010 ft
- Warsaw990 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,012th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Rice County14th highest of 21
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.