Colfax, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 300 m970 ft 295 m970 ft 295 m960 ft 295 m950 ft 290 m950 ft 290 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Colfax sits at about 960 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
960 ft 290 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
950 ft 290 m
on the northeast side
Highest
960 ft 295 m
on the north side
Average
960 ft 290 m
all land inside city limits
Colfax is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 10 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 960 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 960 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 950 ft290 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Colfax | 960 ft295 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft290 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Richland County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 209 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 165 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.4694° N, 96.8745° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Red River → Canada
- ZIP codes 1
- 58018
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Nansen Township1,020 ft
- Colfax960 ft
- Walcott950 ft
- Colfax Township950 ft
- Abercrombie Township950 ft
- McCauleyville Township, MN940 ft
- Roberts Township, MN940 ft
- Walcott Township940 ft
- Abercrombie940 ft
- Eagle Township930 ft
- Christine930 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota1,560th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Richland County42nd highest of 50
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. All public domain.