West Roy Lake, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,610 ft 490 m1,580 ft 480 m1,560 ft 475 m1,530 ft 470 m1,500 ft 460 m1,490 ft 455 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
West Roy Lake sits at about 1,500 ft (460 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,500 ft 460 m
few residents
Lowest
1,490 ft 455 m
on the north side
Highest
1,610 ft 490 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,520 ft 460 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
West Roy Lake spans about 120 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,500 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Average of all land | 1,520 ft460 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.9 mi south to north through the middle of West Roy Lake.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Mahnomen County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 56 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 35 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.3159° N, 95.5992° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wild Rice River → Red River → Canada
- ZIP codes 1
- 56557
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West Roy Lake1,500 ft
- Roy Lake1,500 ft
- Clover Township, Mahnomen County1,500 ft
- Naytahwaush1,500 ft
- Twin Lakes Township, Mahnomen County1,500 ft
- South End1,490 ft
- Rice Lake, Clearwater County1,490 ft
- La Prairie Township1,490 ft
- Twin Lakes1,450 ft
- The Ranch1,450 ft
- La Garde Township1,380 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota148th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Mahnomen County2nd highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Jack Pine Hill1,950 ft
- Hogback Hill1,920 ft
- Anchor Hill1,897 ft
- Strawberry Mountain1,840 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,490 ft at 47.3224° N, 95.5910° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- West Roy Lake is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.