Golden Valley, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,010 ft 610 m1,980 ft 605 m1,960 ft 600 m1,930 ft 590 m1,900 ft 580 m1,880 ft 575 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
Golden Valley sits at about 1,940 ft (590 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,940 ft 590 m
most residents: 1,920–1,980 ft
Lowest
1,880 ft 575 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,010 ft 610 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,940 ft 590 m
all land inside city limits
Golden Valley spans about 130 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 | 1,940 ft590 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 2,010 ft610 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,880 ft575 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Golden Valley | 1,950 ft595 m |
| Average of all land | 1,940 ft590 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Mercer County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 188 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 251 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.2908° N, 102.0646° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 58541
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dunn Center2,190 ft
- Hebron2,160 ft
- Halliday2,050 ft
- White Shield2,010 ft
- Dodge2,000 ft
- Blackwater Township1,970 ft
- Golden Valley1,940 ft
- Loquemont Township1,920 ft
- Zap1,850 ft
- Beulah1,840 ft
- Hazen1,750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota466th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Mercer Countyhighest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Medicine Butte2,349 ft
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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.