Gates Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,690 ft 515 m1,620 ft 495 m1,590 ft 485 m1,520 ft 465 m1,450 ft 440 m1,410 ft 430 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

Gates Township sits at about 1,480 ft (450 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,480 ft 450 m

most residents: 1,450–1,620 ft

Lowest

1,410 ft 430 m

on the northeast side

Highest

1,690 ft 515 m

on the southeast side

Average

1,540 ft 470 m

all land inside township boundaries

Gates Township spans about 280 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	1,480 ft450 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side	1,690 ft515 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side	1,410 ft430 m
Airport (8J7) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.4 mi south of the township boundaries	1,535 ft468 m
Average of all land	1,540 ft470 m

Elevation profile, south to north

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

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Eddy County, North Dakota, United States
Population: 45 2024 est.
Land area: 35.5 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
Density: 1.3 per sq mi
Coordinates: 47.8268° N, 99.1313° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Sheyenne River → Red River → Canada
Airport: Tomlinson Field (8J7) 1,535 ft

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

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Valhalla Township1,580 ft
Oberon1,560 ft
Munster Township1,550 ft
Oberon Township1,540 ft
Bush Township1,540 ft
New Rockford Township1,530 ft
New Rockford1,530 ft
Grandfield Township1,520 ft
Rock Township1,520 ft
Gates Township1,480 ft
Sheyenne1,480 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in North Dakota1,141st highest of 1,711
Towns in Eddy County17th highest of 20

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Sullys Hill1,770 ft
Devils Heart Butte1,720 ft
Crow Hill1,700 ft
Black Hammer Hill1,700 ft
Sams Hill1,500 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 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, 1,410 ft at 47.8421° N, 99.1160° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.