Buena Vista Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,970 ft 905 m2,900 ft 885 m2,870 ft 875 m2,800 ft 855 m2,740 ft 835 m2,710 ft 825 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Buena Vista Township sits at about 2,810 ft (855 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,810 ft 855 m
few residents
Lowest
2,710 ft 825 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,970 ft 905 m
on the east side
Average
2,820 ft 860 m
all land inside township boundaries
Buena Vista Township spans about 260 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 | 2,810 ft855 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 2,970 ft905 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,710 ft825 m |
| Average of all land | 2,820 ft860 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.1 mi south to north through the middle of Buena Vista Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Bowman County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 21 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.6 sq mi
- Density
- 0.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.2131° N, 103.0788° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Cedar Creek → 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
- Fischbein Township2,860 ft
- Stillwater Township2,860 ft
- Whiting Township2,830 ft
- Reeder2,820 ft
- Scranton Township2,820 ft
- Woodberry Township2,810 ft
- Buena Vista Township2,810 ft
- Scranton2,800 ft
- Gascoyne Township2,780 ft
- Gascoyne2,760 ft
- Cedar Creek Township2,750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota41st highest of 1,711
- Towns in Bowman County23rd highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- White Butte, Slope County3,500 ft
- Rattlesnake Butte, Slope County3,370 ft
- Wolf Butte, Adams County3,040 ft
- Moga Butte2,940 ft
- Warnke Hill2,920 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.