NoiseLevelCheck

Ottertail, MN Noise Levels

Ottertail, MN: what the federal noise map shows

At Ottertail, MN, road, rail and aircraft noise all fall below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's national map can distinguish from silence. Ottertail's reading comes from a single sampled point, not a block-by-block sweep, so a specific address here could genuinely differ.

Where Ottertail ranks

Ottertail is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. By population, it ranks 11,691 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 721 people.

Your street may differ from Ottertail's reading

For a single house or lot in Ottertail rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.

See BTS's official National Transportation Noise Map

More on how this number was built

For exactly which federal dataset feeds Ottertail's figure, see the methodology guide. The guide to reading a quiet result explains what "no measurable noise" actually means at Ottertail.