Columbus, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,960 ft 595 m1,950 ft 595 m1,940 ft 590 m1,930 ft 590 m1,930 ft 585 m1,920 ft 585 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
Columbus sits at about 1,930 ft (590 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,930 ft 590 m
most residents: 1,920–1,930 ft
Lowest
1,920 ft 585 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,940 ft 590 m
near the middle
Average
1,930 ft 590 m
all land inside city limits
Columbus 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 | 1,930 ft590 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 1,940 ft590 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,920 ft585 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Columbus | 1,940 ft590 m |
| Average of all land | 1,930 ft590 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Burke County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 132 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 484 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.9042° N, 102.7805° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Souris River → Canada
- ZIP codes 1
- 58727
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Leaf Mountain Township2,420 ft
- Keller Township2,030 ft
- Lignite1,980 ft
- Fay Township1,960 ft
- Vale Township1,960 ft
- Portal Township1,940 ft
- Columbus1,930 ft
- Larson1,930 ft
- Short Creek Township1,920 ft
- Forthun Township1,910 ft
- Mentor Township1,900 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota477th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Burke County28th highest of 35
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.