Big Bend Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,210 ft 370 m1,170 ft 355 m1,150 ft 350 m1,110 ft 340 m1,070 ft 325 m1,050 ft 320 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
Big Bend Township sits at about 1,160 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,160 ft 355 m
most residents: 1,120–1,180 ft
Lowest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,140 ft 350 m
all land inside township boundaries
Big Bend Township spans about 160 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 | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Airport (6L3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.3 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,240 ft378 m |
| Average of all land | 1,140 ft350 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Big Bend Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Ransom County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 159 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.4349° N, 97.6054° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Sheyenne River → Red River → Canada
- Airport
- Lisbon Municipal (6L3) 1,240 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bale Township1,250 ft
- Tuller Township1,200 ft
- Island Park Township1,190 ft
- Aliceton Township1,180 ft
- Big Bend Township1,160 ft
- Casey Township1,140 ft
- Liberty Township1,130 ft
- Sydna Township1,100 ft
- Lisbon1,090 ft
- Scoville Township1,070 ft
- Shenford Township1,070 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota1,426th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Ransom County16th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bears Den Hillock1,480 ft
- The Pyramid1,400 ft
- Sorby Hill1,370 ft
- Oestreicher Hill1,300 ft
- Scott Hill1,270 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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, 1,050 ft at 46.3718° N, 97.5337° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.