Butte Valley Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,840 ft 560 m1,770 ft 540 m1,740 ft 530 m1,670 ft 510 m1,610 ft 490 m1,580 ft 480 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
Butte Valley Township sits at about 1,650 ft (500 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,650 ft 500 m
most residents: 1,600–1,650 ft
Lowest
1,580 ft 480 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,840 ft 560 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,640 ft 500 m
all land inside township boundaries
Butte Valley 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 Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,650 ft500 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,580 ft480 m |
| Average of all land | 1,640 ft500 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Butte Valley Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Benson County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 42 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.3 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.1649° N, 99.5215° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Stump Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Butte Valley Township1,650 ft
- Isabel Township1,630 ft
- Broe Township1,630 ft
- Albert Township1,620 ft
- Twin Lake Township1,620 ft
- Eldon Township1,620 ft
- Beaver Township1,600 ft
- McClellan Township1,590 ft
- Brinsmade1,560 ft
- Lake Ibsen Township1,540 ft
- Leeds1,510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota709th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Benson Countyhighest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Buttes1,870 ft
- Broken Bone Hill1,710 ft
- Sams Hill1,500 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.