Beach, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,850 ft 870 m2,820 ft 860 m2,800 ft 855 m2,770 ft 845 m2,740 ft 835 m2,730 ft 830 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Beach sits at about 2,790 ft (850 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,790 ft 850 m
most residents: 2,770–2,800 ft
Lowest
2,730 ft 830 m
on the north side
Highest
2,850 ft 870 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,780 ft 845 m
all land inside city limits
Beach spans about 120 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 | 2,790 ft850 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 2,850 ft870 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 2,730 ft830 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Beach | 2,770 ft845 m |
| Airport (20U) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi northeast of the city limits | 2,756 ft840 m |
| Average of all land | 2,780 ft845 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Golden Valley County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 993 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.6 sq mi
- Density
- 389 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.9181° N, 104.0044° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Beaver Creek → Little Missouri River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Beach (20U) 2,756 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 58621
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lone Tree Township2,860 ft
- Beach Township2,850 ft
- Golva2,830 ft
- Beach2,790 ft
- Delhi Township2,780 ft
- Garner Township2,740 ft
- Sentinel Township2,730 ft
- Saddle Butte Township2,730 ft
- Sentinel Butte2,720 ft
- Wibaux, MT2,660 ft
- Elk Creek Township2,620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota48th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Golden Valley County4th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sentinel Butte3,432 ft
- Camels Hump Butte3,275 ft
- Rocky Butte3,270 ft
- Five Point Butte3,040 ft
- Lone Butte, Golden Valley County3,030 ft
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).
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.