Black Butte Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,010 ft 915 m2,870 ft 875 m2,800 ft 855 m2,660 ft 810 m2,520 ft 770 m2,460 ft 750 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
Black Butte Township sits at about 2,570 ft (785 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,570 ft 785 m
few residents
Lowest
2,460 ft 750 m
on the south side
Highest
3,010 ft 915 m
on Black Butte
Average
2,570 ft 785 m
all land inside township boundaries
Black Butte Township spans about 550 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 | 2,570 ft785 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Black Butte | 3,010 ft915 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 2,460 ft750 m |
| Average of all land | 2,570 ft785 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Black Butte Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Hettinger County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 30 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi
- Density
- 0.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.5071° N, 102.6139° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Cannonball River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clark Township2,730 ft
- Wagendorf Township2,700 ft
- Rifle Township2,660 ft
- Tepee Butte Township2,620 ft
- New England Township2,600 ft
- St. Croix Township2,580 ft
- Madison Township2,580 ft
- Black Butte Township2,570 ft
- Havelock Township2,560 ft
- Farina Township2,480 ft
- Regent2,470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota89th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Hettinger County13th highest of 33
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Butte, Hettinger County3,010 ft
- Pearl Butte, Hettinger County2,820 ft
- White Butte, Hettinger County2,770 ft
- Bull Butte, Hettinger County2,750 ft
- Abbey Hill2,650 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.