Billings County, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,350 ft 1,020 m3,030 ft 925 m2,870 ft 875 m2,550 ft 780 m2,240 ft 680 m2,080 ft 635 m
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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
Billings County averages about 2,570 ft (780 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,080 ft on the northwest side to 3,350 ft on Bullion Butte.
Average elevation
2,570 ft 780 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,350 ft 1,020 m
on Bullion Butte
Lowest
2,080 ft 635 m
on the northwest side
Billings County spans about 1,270 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 | 2,570 ft780 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Bullion Butte | 3,350 ft1,020 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 2,080 ft635 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
48 mi south to north through Medora.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 1,063 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,148.5 sq mi + 4.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.9 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Slope County2,830 ft
- Golden Valley County2,680 ft
- Billings County2,570 ft
- Stark County2,490 ft
- Dunn County2,260 ft
- McKenzie County2,250 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Dakota5th highest of 53
- Counties in the United States473rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Bullion Butte3,350 ft
- Toms Butte3,030 ft
- Windy Butte3,020 ft
- Flat Top Butte, Billings County2,980 ft
- Tracy Mountain2,930 ft
The one town in Billings County
- Medora2,270 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.
- Highest ground: the single highest 3DEP cell, 3,350 ft at 46.6829° N, 103.5971° W, has no federal (GNIS) summit name within 980 ft (300 m), so the high point shown is the highest of the 25 highest cells with a GNIS summit within 1,640 ft (500 m).
- 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.