Elgin Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,680 ft 510 m1,650 ft 505 m1,640 ft 500 m1,620 ft 495 m1,590 ft 485 m1,580 ft 480 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Elgin Township sits at about 1,620 ft (495 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,620 ft 495 m

most residents: 1,600–1,660 ft

Lowest

1,580 ft 480 m

on the northwest side

Highest

1,680 ft 510 m

on the northeast side

Average

1,610 ft 490 m

all land inside township boundaries

Elgin Township spans about 100 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	1,620 ft495 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side	1,680 ft510 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side	1,580 ft480 m
Airport (D55) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways	1,608 ft490 m
Average of all land	1,610 ft490 m

Elevation profile, west to east

6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Elgin Township.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Cavalier County, North Dakota, United States
Population: 178 2024 est.
Land area: 34.3 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
Density: 5.2 per sq mi
Coordinates: 48.7766° N, 98.3827° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Pembina River → Red River → Canada
Airport: Robertson Field (D55) 1,608 ft

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Easby Township1,630 ft
Manilla Township1,630 ft
Perry Township1,620 ft
Elgin Township1,620 ft
Harvey Township1,620 ft
Langdon1,610 ft
Langdon Township1,590 ft
North Loma Township1,580 ft
Waterloo Township1,580 ft
South Dresden Township1,570 ft
Mount Carmel Township1,560 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in North Dakota754th highest of 1,711
Towns in Cavalier County8th highest of 52

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Old Baldy1,460 ft
Norman Otto Hill1,460 ft
Point Kneeshaw1,380 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).
Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,580 ft at 48.8035° N, 98.4715° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.