Aurora Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,670 ft 510 m1,630 ft 495 m1,610 ft 490 m1,570 ft 475 m1,520 ft 465 m1,500 ft 460 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Aurora Township sits at about 1,570 ft (480 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,570 ft 480 m
few residents
Lowest
1,500 ft 460 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,670 ft 510 m
on the west side
Average
1,570 ft 480 m
all land inside township boundaries
Aurora Township spans about 170 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 | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,670 ft510 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,500 ft460 m |
| Airport (6D3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,600 ft488 m |
| Average of all land | 1,570 ft480 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Aurora Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Benson County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 21 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.0063° N, 99.3785° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Sheyenne River → Red River → Canada
- Airport
- Maddock Municipal (6D3) 1,600 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Albert Township1,620 ft
- Eldon Township1,620 ft
- North Viking Township1,590 ft
- Maddock1,580 ft
- Aurora Township1,570 ft
- South Viking Township1,550 ft
- Oberon Township1,540 ft
- Lallie Township1,540 ft
- West Antelope Township1,540 ft
- West Bay Township1,510 ft
- Minnewaukan1,460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota869th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Benson County24th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Buttes1,870 ft
- Crow Hill1,700 ft
- Black Hammer Hill1,700 ft
- Sams Hill1,500 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; 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 township boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.