Wheaton, MN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,020 ft 310 m1,010 ft 310 m1,010 ft 305 m1,000 ft 305 m990 ft 300 m980 ft 300 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Wheaton 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

nearly all residents at this height

Lowest

980 ft 300 m

on the north side

Highest

1,020 ft 310 m

on the northeast side

Average

1,010 ft 310 m

all land inside city limits

Wheaton spans about 40 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 city limits, on the northeast side	1,020 ft310 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side	980 ft300 m
Town center USGS map point for Wheaton	1,020 ft310 m
Airport (ETH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.9 mi southwest of the city limits	1,023 ft312 m
Average of all land	1,010 ft310 m

Topographic Map

Location: City in Traverse County, Minnesota, United States
Population: 1,334 2024 est.
Land area: 1.7 sq mi
Density: 768 per sq mi
Coordinates: 45.8044° N, 96.4992° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Red River → Canada
Airport: Wheaton Municipal (ETH) 1,023 ft
ZIP codes 1: 56296

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Walls Township1,080 ft
White Rock Township, SD1,070 ft
Dumont1,040 ft
Croke Township1,040 ft
Clifton Township, Traverse County1,030 ft
White Rock Colony, SD1,020 ft
Wheaton1,020 ft
Lake Valley Township1,020 ft
Redpath Township1,010 ft
Monson Township1,000 ft
White Rock, SD970 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Minnesota2,065th highest of 2,692
Towns in Traverse County11th highest of 19

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).
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, 980 ft at 45.8149° N, 96.5057° 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.
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.