Winthrop, MN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,040 ft 320 m1,030 ft 315 m1,030 ft 315 m1,020 ft 310 m1,010 ft 305 m1,000 ft 305 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

Winthrop 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: 1,010–1,040 ft

Lowest

1,000 ft 305 m

on the northeast side

Highest

1,040 ft 320 m

near the middle

Average

1,020 ft 310 m

all land inside city limits

Winthrop 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	1,030 ft315 m
Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle	1,040 ft320 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side	1,000 ft305 m
Town center USGS map point for Winthrop	1,030 ft315 m
Average of all land	1,020 ft310 m

Elevation profile, west to east

1.8 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Sibley County, Minnesota, United States
Population: 1,332 2024 est.
Land area: 1.3 sq mi
Density: 1,045 per sq mi
Coordinates: 44.5430° N, 94.3664° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 55396

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Bismarck Township1,050 ft
Gibbon1,040 ft
Winthrop1,030 ft
Cornish Township1,020 ft
Transit Township1,020 ft
Lafayette1,010 ft
Alfsborg Township1,000 ft
Gaylord1,000 ft
Dryden Township1,000 ft
Bernadotte Township990 ft
Sibley Township980 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Minnesota2,021st highest of 2,692
Towns in Sibley County6th highest of 24

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, 1,000 ft at 44.5454° N, 94.3590° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.