Forman, ND Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,280 ft 390 m1,270 ft 385 m1,260 ft 385 m1,260 ft 385 m1,250 ft 380 m1,240 ft 380 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
City area: Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Forman sits at about 1,250 ft (385 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,250 ft 385 m

most residents: 1,250–1,260 ft

Lowest

1,240 ft 380 m

on the east side

Highest

1,270 ft 385 m

on the south side

Average

1,250 ft 380 m

all land inside city limits

Forman spans about 30 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	1,250 ft385 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side	1,270 ft385 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side	1,240 ft380 m
Town center USGS map point for Forman	1,260 ft385 m
Airport (GWR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi north of the city limits	1,266 ft386 m
Average of all land	1,250 ft380 m

Topographic Map

Location: City in Sargent County, North Dakota, United States
Population: 490 2024 est.
Land area: 0.8 sq mi
Density: 629 per sq mi
Coordinates: 46.1077° N, 97.6365° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Crooked Creek → Wild Rice River → Red River → Canada
Airport: Gwinner/Roger Melroe Field (GWR) 1,266 ft
ZIP codes 1: 58032

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

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Harlem Township1,310 ft
Cogswell1,300 ft
Sargent Township1,300 ft
Forman Township1,300 ft
Bowen Township1,290 ft
Gwinner1,260 ft
Forman1,250 ft
Rutland Township1,230 ft
Dunbar Township1,230 ft
Rutland1,220 ft
Ransom Township1,190 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in North Dakota1,374th highest of 1,711
Towns in Sargent County17th highest of 32

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).
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, 1,240 ft at 46.1071° N, 97.6293° 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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.