Forbes, ND Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,580 ft 485 m1,580 ft 480 m1,570 ft 480 m1,560 ft 475 m1,560 ft 475 m1,550 ft 475 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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

Forbes sits at about 1,560 ft (475 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside city limits (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

1,560 ft 475 m

few residents

Lowest

1,550 ft 475 m

on the southeast side

Highest

1,560 ft 475 m

on the southwest side

Average

1,560 ft 475 m

all land inside city limits

Forbes is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 10 ft, so the figures below sit close together.

Figure	Elevation
Typical (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by	1,560 ft475 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side	1,560 ft475 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side	1,550 ft475 m
Town center USGS map point for Forbes	1,560 ft475 m
Average of all land	1,560 ft475 m

Location: City in Dickey County, North Dakota, United States
Population: 38 2024 est.
Land area: 0.2 sq mi
Density: 157 per sq mi
Coordinates: 45.9436° N, 98.7820° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Elm River → James River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 58439

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

How we measure

Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the city limits; 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 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.