Cottonwood Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,560 ft 780 m2,460 ft 750 m2,410 ft 735 m2,310 ft 705 m2,210 ft 670 m2,160 ft 655 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
Cottonwood Township sits at about 2,350 ft (715 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,350 ft 715 m
few residents
Lowest
2,160 ft 655 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,560 ft 780 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,340 ft 715 m
all land inside township boundaries
Cottonwood Township spans about 400 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 | 2,350 ft715 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 2,560 ft780 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,160 ft655 m |
| Average of all land | 2,340 ft715 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Cottonwood Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Mountrail County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 45 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.7 sq mi + 2.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.4409° N, 102.5700° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Cottonwood Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Manitou Township2,380 ft
- Lostwood Township2,380 ft
- Garness Township2,360 ft
- Cottonwood Township2,350 ft
- Powers Lake Township2,310 ft
- Ross Township2,310 ft
- Powers Township2,300 ft
- Ross2,290 ft
- Sorkness Township2,270 ft
- James Hill Township2,260 ft
- Powers Lake2,210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota145th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Mountrail County5th highest of 56
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Little Butte, Burke County2,480 ft
- Grand View2,470 ft
- Big Butte, Mountrail County2,460 ft
- Ward Hill2,390 ft
- Mosquito Butte2,320 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).
- 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.