Sheridan County, MT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,770 ft 845 m2,560 ft 780 m2,450 ft 750 m2,240 ft 685 m2,030 ft 620 m1,930 ft 585 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sheridan County averages about 2,240 ft (685 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,930 ft on the south side to 2,770 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
2,240 ft 685 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,770 ft 845 m
on the west side
Lowest
1,930 ft 585 m
on the south side
Sheridan County spans about 840 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 2,240 ft685 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 2,770 ft845 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 1,930 ft585 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
42 mi south to north through Plentywood.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Montana, United States
- Population
- 3,448 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,676.9 sq mi + 29.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.1 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 75%, Clear Lake basin (does not reach the sea) 13%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Daniels County2,640 ft
- Roosevelt County2,270 ft
- Sheridan County2,240 ft
- Williams County, ND2,210 ft
- Divide County, ND2,150 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Montanalowest of 54
- Counties in the United States547th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Kisler Butte2,650 ft
- Flagstaff Hill, Sheridan County2,520 ft
- Brush Mountain, Sheridan County2,300 ft
- Umbrights Hill1,990 ft
All 8 towns in Sheridan County by typical elevation
- Outlook2,350 ft
- Redstone2,100 ft
- Westby2,100 ft
- Plentywood2,050 ft
- Antelope2,040 ft
- Homestead1,980 ft
- Reserve1,980 ft
- Medicine Lake1,960 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 1,930 ft at 48.3937° N, 104.6024° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.