Dickinson, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,610 ft 795 m2,560 ft 780 m2,530 ft 770 m2,470 ft 750 m2,410 ft 735 m2,380 ft 725 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
Dickinson sits at about 2,450 ft (750 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,450 ft 750 m
most residents: 2,420–2,510 ft
Lowest
2,380 ft 725 m
near the middle
Highest
2,610 ft 795 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,470 ft 750 m
all land inside city limits
Dickinson spans about 230 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 | 2,450 ft750 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 2,610 ft795 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 2,380 ft725 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dickinson | 2,410 ft735 m |
| Airport (DIK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.5 mi south of the city limits | 2,592 ft790 m |
| Average of all land | 2,470 ft750 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Stark County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 25,695 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,947 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.8792° N, 102.7896° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Heart River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Dickinson/theodore Roosevelt Regional (DIK) 2,592 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 58601
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clark Township2,730 ft
- Kunze Township2,730 ft
- Rifle Township2,660 ft
- New England2,600 ft
- Belfield2,600 ft
- Madison Township2,580 ft
- Taylor2,500 ft
- South Heart2,480 ft
- Richardton2,470 ft
- Dickinson2,450 ft
- Gladstone2,350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota112th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Stark County5th highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Camels Butte2,760 ft
- Dutch Henry Butte2,760 ft
- White Butte, Stark County2,732 ft
- Simon Butte2,700 ft
- Seventeen Butte2,600 ft
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.