Cass County, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,280 ft 390 m1,170 ft 355 m1,110 ft 340 m1,010 ft 305 m900 ft 275 m840 ft 255 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cass County averages about 1,010 ft (305 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 840 ft on the northeast side to 1,280 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
1,010 ft 305 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,280 ft 390 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the northeast side
Cass County spans about 440 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
43 mi west to east through Fargo.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 200,945 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,764.9 sq mi + 2.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 114 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Canada
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Barnes County1,390 ft
- Steele County1,270 ft
- Ransom County1,200 ft
- Richland County1,030 ft
- Clay County, MN1,030 ft
- Cass County1,010 ft
- Norman County, MN990 ft
- Traill County950 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Dakota51st highest of 53
- Counties in the United States1,387th highest of 3,151
All 80 towns in Cass County by typical elevation
- Buffalo1,210 ft
- Ayr1,200 ft
- Ayr Township1,200 ft
- Rich Township1,180 ft
- Page Township1,180 ft
- Page1,170 ft
- Rochester Township1,170 ft
- Tower City1,170 ft
- Lake Township1,160 ft
- Cornell Township1,160 ft
- Tower Township1,160 ft
- Clifton Township1,160 ft
- Hill Township1,160 ft
- Buffalo Township1,150 ft
- Erie Township1,130 ft
- Erie1,130 ft
- Alice1,120 ft
- Pontiac Township1,120 ft
- Howes Township1,100 ft
- Enderlin partly1,090 ft
- Eldred Township1,090 ft
- Dows Township1,080 ft
- Empire Township1,080 ft
- Highland Township1,070 ft
- Embden1,060 ft
- Leonard1,050 ft
- Watson Township1,040 ft
- Hunter Township1,020 ft
- Arthur Township1,020 ft
- Leonard Township1,000 ft
- Wheatland Township990 ft
- Gill Township990 ft
- Wheatland990 ft
- Amenia Township980 ft
- Arthur980 ft
- Hunter980 ft
- Walburg Township970 ft
- Amenia960 ft
- Casselton Township950 ft
- Davenport Township950 ft
- Kindred940 ft
- Maple River Township940 ft
- Gunkel Township940 ft
- Casselton940 ft
- Normanna Township940 ft
- Everest Township930 ft
- Rush River Township930 ft
- Davenport920 ft
- Bell Township920 ft
- Addison Township920 ft
- Oxbow920 ft
- Pleasant Township920 ft
- Durbin Township920 ft
- Harmony Township910 ft
- Warren Township910 ft
- Horace910 ft
- Frontier910 ft
- Stanley Township910 ft
- Mapleton910 ft
- Fargo900 ft
- Prairie Rose900 ft
- Mapleton Township900 ft
- Berlin Township900 ft
- Briarwood900 ft
- West Fargo900 ft
- Barnes Township900 ft
- Raymond Township900 ft
- Gardner Township900 ft
- Grandin890 ft
- Reed Township890 ft
- Reile's Acres890 ft
- Kinyon Township890 ft
- North River890 ft
- Harwood890 ft
- Brooktree Park890 ft
- Argusville890 ft
- Gardner890 ft
- Harwood Township890 ft
- Wiser Township880 ft
- Noble Township880 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.