Hettinger, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,860 ft 875 m2,810 ft 860 m2,790 ft 850 m2,740 ft 835 m2,690 ft 820 m2,660 ft 810 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
Hettinger sits at about 2,720 ft (830 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,720 ft 830 m
most residents: 2,680–2,760 ft
Lowest
2,660 ft 810 m
on the south side
Highest
2,860 ft 875 m
on the north side
Average
2,720 ft 830 m
all land inside city limits
Hettinger spans about 200 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 | 2,720 ft830 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 2,860 ft875 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 2,660 ft810 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hettinger | 2,700 ft820 m |
| Airport (HEI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.7 mi northwest of the city limits | 2,706 ft825 m |
| Average of all land | 2,720 ft830 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Adams County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 1,058 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,276 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.0014° N, 102.6368° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Flat Creek → Grand River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Hettinger/jb Lindquist Regional (HEI) 2,706 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 58639
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bucyrus Township2,840 ft
- Wolf Butte Township2,800 ft
- Bucyrus2,780 ft
- Hettinger Township2,720 ft
- Hettinger2,720 ft
- Duck Creek Township2,690 ft
- Scott Township2,680 ft
- Grand River Township, SD2,600 ft
- Clermont Township2,590 ft
- Liberty Township, Perkins County, SD2,560 ft
- Haynes2,550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota67th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Adams County7th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wolf Butte, Adams County3,040 ft
- Pearl Butte, Adams County2,780 ft
- Taylor Butte2,770 ft
- Big Butte, Adams County2,740 ft
- Twin Buttes, Adams County2,620 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.