Gilby, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m900 ft 275 m890 ft 270 m880 ft 270 m870 ft 265 m870 ft 265 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
Gilby sits at about 880 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
880 ft 270 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the east side
Highest
880 ft 270 m
on the south side
Average
880 ft 270 m
all land inside city limits
Gilby is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 10 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 880 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 880 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 870 ft265 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gilby | 880 ft270 m |
| Average of all land | 880 ft270 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 242 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,367 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.0853° N, 97.4706° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Red River → Canada
- ZIP codes 1
- 58235
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hegton Township1,070 ft
- Inkster1,030 ft
- Wheatfield Township990 ft
- Strabane Township930 ft
- Mekinock Township890 ft
- Gilby880 ft
- Johnstown Township870 ft
- Gilby Township870 ft
- Forest River860 ft
- Lakeville Township840 ft
- Levant Township830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota1,647th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Grand Forks County32nd highest of 51
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.