Lincoln, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,800 ft 550 m1,760 ft 535 m1,740 ft 530 m1,700 ft 515 m1,650 ft 505 m1,630 ft 495 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lincoln sits at about 1,700 ft (515 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,700 ft 515 m
most residents: 1,670–1,730 ft
Lowest
1,630 ft 495 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,800 ft 550 m
on the east side
Average
1,700 ft 520 m
all land inside city limits
Lincoln spans about 170 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 | 1,700 ft515 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lincoln | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Airport (BIS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.4 mi west of the city limits | 1,661 ft506 m |
| Average of all land | 1,700 ft520 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Burleigh County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 4,502 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,824 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.7625° N, 100.7004° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Bismarck Municipal (BIS) 1,661 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 58504
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gibbs Township1,850 ft
- Hay Creek Township1,840 ft
- Missouri Township1,780 ft
- Bismarck1,770 ft
- Boyd Township1,770 ft
- Telfer Township1,730 ft
- Menoken Township1,720 ft
- Apple Creek Township1,720 ft
- Lincoln1,700 ft
- Apple Valley1,670 ft
- Captain's Landing Township1,640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota681st highest of 1,711
- Towns in Burleigh County44th highest of 45
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Keever Butte2,160 ft
- Solberg Butte2,142 ft
- Burnt Butte2,010 ft
- Sugarloaf Butte2,000 ft
- Twin Buttes, Burleigh County1,840 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.