Bowdon, ND Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,830 ft 555 m1,820 ft 555 m1,810 ft 555 m1,800 ft 550 m1,800 ft 550 m1,790 ft 545 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Bowdon sits at about 1,810 ft (550 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,810 ft 550 m

most residents: 1,800–1,810 ft

Lowest

1,790 ft 545 m

on the northwest side

Highest

1,820 ft 555 m

on the southeast side

Average

1,810 ft 550 m

all land inside city limits

Bowdon spans about 30 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	1,810 ft550 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side	1,820 ft555 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side	1,790 ft545 m
Town center USGS map point for Bowdon	1,810 ft550 m
Average of all land	1,810 ft550 m

Topographic Map

Location: City in Wells County, North Dakota, United States
Population: 136 2024 est.
Land area: 0.3 sq mi
Density: 542 per sq mi
Coordinates: 47.4697° N, 99.7079° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: James River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 58418

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in North Dakota609th highest of 1,711
Towns in Wells County11th highest of 44

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Wagon Wheel Hill2,190 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.