Forde Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,620 ft 495 m1,580 ft 480 m1,550 ft 475 m1,510 ft 460 m1,470 ft 450 m1,450 ft 440 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

Forde Township sits at about 1,500 ft (455 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

1,500 ft 455 m

few residents

Lowest

1,450 ft 440 m

on the north side

Highest

1,620 ft 495 m

on the southeast side

Average

1,500 ft 460 m

all land inside township boundaries

Forde Township spans about 170 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by	1,500 ft455 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side	1,620 ft495 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side	1,450 ft440 m
Average of all land	1,500 ft460 m

Elevation profile, south to north

6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Forde Township.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Nelson County, North Dakota, United States
Population: 35 2024 est.
Land area: 35.4 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
Density: 1.0 per sq mi
Coordinates: 47.6867° N, 98.4508° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Sheyenne River → Red River → Canada

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rosendal Township1,570 ft
Paradise Township1,540 ft
Colvin Township1,510 ft
McHenry Township1,510 ft
Forde Township1,500 ft
Willow Township1,470 ft
Freeborn Township1,470 ft
Pekin1,470 ft
Bergen Township1,470 ft
Dayton Township1,460 ft
Osago Township1,450 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in North Dakota1,100th highest of 1,711
Towns in Nelson County22nd highest of 35

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Devils Thumb1,760 ft
Blue Mountain1,670 ft
Devils Lake Mountain1,640 ft
Butte Michaud1,608 ft
Lookout Mountain1,580 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; 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 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, 1,450 ft at 47.7587° N, 98.4601° 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.