Colvin Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,760 ft 535 m1,670 ft 510 m1,630 ft 495 m1,540 ft 470 m1,460 ft 445 m1,420 ft 430 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Colvin Township sits at about 1,510 ft (460 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,510 ft 460 m
most residents: 1,490–1,540 ft
Lowest
1,420 ft 430 m
on the north side
Highest
1,760 ft 535 m
on Devils Thumb
Average
1,530 ft 465 m
all land inside township boundaries
Colvin Township spans about 340 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 Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Devils Thumb | 1,760 ft535 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,420 ft430 m |
| Average of all land | 1,530 ft465 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Colvin Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Eddy County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 68 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.5 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.9 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.7109° N, 98.5781° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Sheyenne River → Red River → Canada
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rosendal Township1,570 ft
- Cherry Lake Township1,540 ft
- Paradise Township1,540 ft
- Lake Washington Township1,520 ft
- Colvin Township1,510 ft
- McHenry Township1,510 ft
- McHenry1,510 ft
- Forde Township1,500 ft
- Freeborn Township1,470 ft
- Tolna1,460 ft
- Dayton Township1,460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota1,034th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Eddy County15th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Devils Thumb1,760 ft
- Devils Heart Butte1,720 ft
- Blue Mountain1,670 ft
- Devils Lake Mountain1,640 ft
- Lookout Mountain1,580 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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); BTS time zones. All public domain.