Emmons County, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,180 ft 665 m2,030 ft 620 m1,960 ft 595 m1,820 ft 555 m1,670 ft 510 m1,600 ft 490 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Emmons County averages about 1,890 ft (575 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,600 ft on the southwest side to 2,180 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
1,890 ft 575 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,180 ft 665 m
on the east side
Lowest
1,600 ft 490 m
on the southwest side
Emmons County spans about 580 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,890 ft575 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 2,180 ft665 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,600 ft490 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
33 mi west to east through Linton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 3,209 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,508.4 sq mi + 46.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.1 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Corson County, SD2,100 ft
- McIntosh County2,050 ft
- Morton County2,030 ft
- Sioux County2,020 ft
- Logan County2,000 ft
- Burleigh County1,890 ft
- Emmons County1,890 ft
- Kidder County1,860 ft
- Campbell County, SD1,800 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Dakota24th highest of 53
- Counties in the United States656th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Smith Butte2,150 ft
- Braun Butte2,124 ft
- Lone Butte, Emmons County2,110 ft
- Lookout Butte, Emmons County2,100 ft
- Volk Butte2,100 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.