Barnes County, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,580 ft 485 m1,470 ft 450 m1,420 ft 435 m1,310 ft 400 m1,200 ft 365 m1,140 ft 350 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
Barnes County averages about 1,390 ft (425 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,140 ft on the southeast side to 1,580 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
1,390 ft 425 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,580 ft 485 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
1,140 ft 350 m
on the southeast side
Barnes County spans about 440 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 | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,580 ft485 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,140 ft350 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
36 mi west to east through Valley City.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 10,798 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,491.6 sq mi + 21.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 7.2 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Canada 83%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Stutsman County1,670 ft
- LaMoure County1,540 ft
- Griggs County1,450 ft
- Barnes County1,390 ft
- Steele County1,270 ft
- Ransom County1,200 ft
- Cass County1,010 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Dakota44th highest of 53
- Counties in the United States923rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Pilot Knob1,480 ft
All 55 towns in Barnes County by typical elevation
- Wimbledon1,490 ft
- Hemen Township1,480 ft
- Pierce Township1,480 ft
- Uxbridge Township1,480 ft
- Mansfield Township1,470 ft
- Litchville1,470 ft
- Svea Township1,470 ft
- Leal1,470 ft
- Rosebud Township1,460 ft
- Greenland Township1,460 ft
- Eckelson Township1,460 ft
- Sanborn1,450 ft
- Meadow Lake Township1,450 ft
- Spring Creek Township1,450 ft
- Green Township1,450 ft
- Potter Township1,450 ft
- Brimer Township1,450 ft
- Skandia Township1,450 ft
- Lake Town Township1,440 ft
- Anderson Township1,440 ft
- Dazey1,430 ft
- Edna Township1,430 ft
- Rogers1,420 ft
- Hobart Township1,420 ft
- Noltimier Township1,420 ft
- Grand Prairie Township1,420 ft
- Rogers Township1,420 ft
- Stewart Township1,420 ft
- Oakhill Township1,420 ft
- Dazey Township1,420 ft
- Ashtabula Township1,410 ft
- Baldwin Township1,410 ft
- Alta Township1,400 ft
- Cuba Township1,390 ft
- Getchell Township1,390 ft
- Nelson Township1,380 ft
- Sibley Trail Township1,360 ft
- Marsh Township1,360 ft
- Norma Township1,360 ft
- Nome1,340 ft
- Thordenskjold Township1,330 ft
- Fingal1,280 ft
- Sibley1,280 ft
- Pillsbury1,280 ft
- Oriska1,270 ft
- Valley Township1,260 ft
- Binghampton Township1,250 ft
- Ellsbury Township1,250 ft
- Valley City1,240 ft
- Raritan Township1,230 ft
- Minnie Lake Township1,220 ft
- Oriska Township1,210 ft
- Weimer Township1,210 ft
- Kathryn1,200 ft
- Springvale Township1,200 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 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; 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, 1,140 ft at 46.7310° N, 97.6821° 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.