Knife River Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,520 ft 770 m2,350 ft 715 m2,260 ft 690 m2,090 ft 635 m1,920 ft 585 m1,830 ft 560 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
Knife River Township sits at about 2,150 ft (655 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,150 ft 655 m
most residents: 1,870–2,390 ft
Lowest
1,830 ft 560 m
on the south side
Highest
2,520 ft 770 m
on the east side
Average
2,170 ft 660 m
all land inside township boundaries
Knife River Township spans about 690 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 | 2,150 ft655 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 2,520 ft770 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,830 ft560 m |
| Airport (05D) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.8 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,924 ft586 m |
| Average of all land | 2,170 ft660 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Knife River Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Mountrail County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 51 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.7 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.0637° N, 102.5244° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- New Town Municipal (05D) 1,924 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Brookbank Township2,340 ft
- Rat Lake Township2,330 ft
- Sikes Township2,300 ft
- Knife River Township2,150 ft
- Crane Creek Township2,130 ft
- Riverview Township2,080 ft
- Big Bend Township, Mountrail County2,030 ft
- New Town1,940 ft
- Four Bears Village1,940 ft
- Van Hook Township1,920 ft
- Osborn Township1,900 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota270th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Mountrail County33rd highest of 56
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Butte2,710 ft
- Table Butte, McKenzie County2,650 ft
- Chimney Butte, McKenzie County2,630 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. All public domain.