Cando, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,500 ft 460 m1,490 ft 455 m1,490 ft 455 m1,480 ft 450 m1,470 ft 450 m1,470 ft 450 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
Cando sits at about 1,480 ft (450 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,480 ft 450 m
most residents: 1,480–1,490 ft
Lowest
1,470 ft 450 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,490 ft 455 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,480 ft 450 m
all land inside city limits
Cando is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,470 ft450 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cando | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Airport (9D7) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.2 mi west of the city limits | 1,482 ft452 m |
| Average of all land | 1,480 ft450 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Towner County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 1,061 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 1,570 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.4867° N, 99.2099° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Stump Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Cando Municipal (9D7) 1,482 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 58324
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Zion Township1,540 ft
- Gerrard Township1,520 ft
- Paulson Township1,500 ft
- Olson Township1,490 ft
- Atkins Township1,490 ft
- Bethel Township1,480 ft
- Cando1,480 ft
- Cando Township1,480 ft
- Coolin Township1,460 ft
- Maza Township1,460 ft
- Chain Lakes Township1,450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota1,137th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Towner County31st highest of 34
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.