Grand Forks, ND Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

880 ft 270 m860 ft 260 m850 ft 260 m830 ft 250 m810 ft 245 m790 ft 240 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.
City area: Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Grand Forks sits at about 830 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

830 ft 255 m

most residents: 830–840 ft

Lowest

790 ft 240 m

on the northwest side

Highest

880 ft 270 m

on the west side

Average

840 ft 255 m

all land inside city limits

Grand Forks spans about 90 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	830 ft255 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side	880 ft270 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side	790 ft240 m
Town center USGS map point for Grand Forks	830 ft255 m
Airport (GFK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways	845 ft258 m
Average of all land	840 ft255 m

Elevation profile, south to north

4.8 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States
Population: 59,845 2024 est.
Land area: 29.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
Density: 2,048 per sq mi
Coordinates: 47.9253° N, 97.0329° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Red River → Canada
Airport: Grand Forks International (GFK) 845 ft
ZIP codes 3: 58201 58202 58203

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

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in North Dakota1,681st highest of 1,711
Towns in Grand Forks County46th 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.