Fargo, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,000 ft 305 m960 ft 295 m950 ft 290 m910 ft 280 m880 ft 270 m860 ft 265 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Fargo sits at about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
900 ft 275 m
most residents: 900–910 ft
Lowest
860 ft 265 m
on the north side
Highest
1,000 ft 305 m
on the west side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside city limits
Fargo spans about 140 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 | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 860 ft265 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fargo | 900 ft275 m |
| Airport (FAR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 901 ft275 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cass County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 136,285 2024 est.
- Land area
- 52.2 sq mi
- Density
- 2,611 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.8772° N, 96.7898° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Red River → Canada
- Airport
- Hector International (FAR) 901 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 58047 58102 58103 58104 58105
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Moorhead Township, MN910 ft
- Dilworth, MN910 ft
- Frontier910 ft
- Moorhead, MN910 ft
- Fargo900 ft
- Prairie Rose900 ft
- Briarwood900 ft
- West Fargo900 ft
- Oakport Township, MN900 ft
- Reile's Acres890 ft
- North River890 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota1,612th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Cass County59th highest of 79
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. All public domain.