Blacktail Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,380 ft 725 m2,270 ft 690 m2,220 ft 675 m2,110 ft 645 m2,010 ft 615 m1,960 ft 595 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
Blacktail Township sits at about 2,090 ft (640 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,090 ft 640 m
most residents: 2,080–2,180 ft
Lowest
1,960 ft 595 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,380 ft 725 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,170 ft 660 m
all land inside township boundaries
Blacktail Township spans about 420 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 | 2,090 ft640 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 2,380 ft725 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,960 ft595 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Blacktail Township | 2,100 ft640 m |
| Airport (XWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi south of the township boundaries | 2,356 ft718 m |
| Average of all land | 2,170 ft660 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Williams County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 91 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.4312° N, 103.7423° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Little Muddy River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Williston Basin International (XWA) 2,356 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Strandahl Township2,400 ft
- Bonetraill Township2,380 ft
- Good Luck Township2,300 ft
- Orthell Township2,110 ft
- Blacktail2,100 ft
- Blacktail Township2,090 ft
- Winner Township2,050 ft
- Scorio Township2,050 ft
- East Fork Township2,010 ft
- Tyrone Township1,990 ft
- Athens Township1,990 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota320th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Williams County46th highest of 63
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bull Butte, Williams County2,599 ft
- Barr Butte2,300 ft
- Smoky Butte2,224 ft
- Indian Hill2,170 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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.