Butte, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,760 ft 535 m1,740 ft 530 m1,730 ft 530 m1,710 ft 520 m1,690 ft 515 m1,690 ft 515 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Butte sits at about 1,740 ft (530 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,740 ft 530 m
most residents: 1,730–1,740 ft
Lowest
1,690 ft 515 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,760 ft 535 m
on the south side
Average
1,740 ft 530 m
all land inside city limits
Butte spans about 70 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 | 1,740 ft530 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,760 ft535 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Butte | 1,740 ft530 m |
| Average of all land | 1,740 ft530 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in McLean County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 72 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 293 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.8381° N, 100.6654° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Wintering River → Souris River → Canada
- ZIP codes 1
- 58723
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Byersville Township2,010 ft
- Aurena Township2,000 ft
- Highland Township, Sheridan County1,960 ft
- Dogden Township1,840 ft
- Butte1,740 ft
- Olivia Township1,720 ft
- Strassburg Township1,680 ft
- Kief1,660 ft
- Land Township1,630 ft
- Cottonwood Lake Township1,620 ft
- Balfour1,610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota656th highest of 1,711
- Towns in McLean Countylowest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dogden Butte2,299 ft
- Little Butte, McHenry County1,742 ft
- Montgomery Hill1,630 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.