Hardscrabble Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,470 ft 750 m2,320 ft 705 m2,240 ft 685 m2,090 ft 640 m1,940 ft 595 m1,870 ft 570 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hardscrabble Township sits at about 2,170 ft (665 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,170 ft 665 m
most residents: 1,900–2,240 ft
Lowest
1,870 ft 570 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,470 ft 750 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,160 ft 660 m
all land inside township boundaries
Hardscrabble Township spans about 600 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 | 2,170 ft665 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 2,470 ft750 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Airport (XWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 2,356 ft718 m |
| Average of all land | 2,160 ft660 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.4 mi west to east through the middle of Hardscrabble Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Williams County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 111 2024 est.
- Land area
- 50.2 sq mi
- Density
- 2.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.0769° N, 103.9445° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Williston Basin International (XWA) 2,356 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hebron Township2,320 ft
- Mont Township2,270 ft
- Round Prairie Township2,270 ft
- Hardscrabble Township2,170 ft
- Tri Township2,170 ft
- Judson Township2,130 ft
- Williston Township1,970 ft
- Trenton Township1,970 ft
- Trenton1,970 ft
- Sioux Township1,960 ft
- Buford Township1,900 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota254th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Williams County34th highest of 63
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bull Butte, Williams County2,599 ft
- Ragged Butte2,410 ft
- Bull Butte, McKenzie County2,300 ft
- Crow Fly High Hill2,130 ft
- Plum Pudding Butte (historical)2,120 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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.