Cathay Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,680 ft 510 m1,650 ft 505 m1,640 ft 500 m1,610 ft 490 m1,580 ft 480 m1,560 ft 475 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Cathay Township sits at about 1,600 ft (490 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

1,600 ft 490 m

few residents

Lowest

1,560 ft 475 m

on the east side

Highest

1,680 ft 510 m

on the southwest side

Average

1,610 ft 490 m

all land inside township boundaries

Cathay Township spans about 120 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	1,600 ft490 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side	1,680 ft510 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side	1,560 ft475 m
Average of all land	1,610 ft490 m

Elevation profile, west to east

6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Cathay Township.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Wells County, North Dakota, United States
Population: 40 2024 est.
Land area: 35.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
Density: 1.1 per sq mi
Coordinates: 47.5549° N, 99.4422° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: James 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

Speedwell Township1,750 ft
Sykeston Township1,670 ft
Sykeston1,640 ft
South Cottonwood Township1,630 ft
Oshkosh Township1,600 ft
Cathay Township1,600 ft
Bilodeau Township1,600 ft
Germantown Township1,590 ft
Woodward Township1,590 ft
Cathay1,580 ft
Fairville Township1,570 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in North Dakota795th highest of 1,711
Towns in Wells County28th highest of 44

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Wagon Wheel Hill2,190 ft
Hawks Nest2,120 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).
Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,560 ft at 47.5524° N, 99.4001° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
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.