Kern Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,770 ft 845 m2,690 ft 820 m2,660 ft 810 m2,580 ft 785 m2,500 ft 760 m2,460 ft 750 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Kern Township sits at about 2,530 ft (770 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,530 ft 770 m
few residents
Lowest
2,460 ft 750 m
on the east side
Highest
2,770 ft 845 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,540 ft 775 m
all land inside township boundaries
Kern Township spans about 310 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 2,530 ft770 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 2,770 ft845 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 2,460 ft750 m |
| Airport (3P3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.2 mi north of the township boundaries | 2,414 ft736 m |
| Average of all land | 2,540 ft775 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.4 mi south to north through the middle of Kern Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Hettinger County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 14 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.4 sq mi
- Density
- 0.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.2350° N, 102.2991° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Timber Creek → Cedar Creek → Cannonball River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mott Municipal (3P3) 2,414 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ashby Township2,590 ft
- Chilton Township2,560 ft
- Kern Township2,530 ft
- Chandler Township2,510 ft
- Merrill Township2,500 ft
- Baer Township2,490 ft
- Mott Township2,440 ft
- Brittian Township2,430 ft
- Castle Rock Township2,420 ft
- Mott2,410 ft
- Cannon Ball Township2,370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota93rd highest of 1,711
- Towns in Hettinger County16th highest of 33
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Long Butte, Adams County2,800 ft
- Anderson Butte, Hettinger County2,730 ft
- Spring Butte, Adams County2,710 ft
- Plum Butte2,690 ft
- Forsch Rocks2,570 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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. All public domain.