McIntosh County, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,290 ft 695 m2,190 ft 665 m2,140 ft 650 m2,040 ft 620 m1,940 ft 590 m1,890 ft 575 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
McIntosh County averages about 2,050 ft (625 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,890 ft on the northwest side to 2,290 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
2,050 ft 625 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,290 ft 695 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
1,890 ft 575 m
on the northwest side
McIntosh County spans about 400 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 2,050 ft625 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 2,290 ft695 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,890 ft575 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
42 mi west to east through Wishek.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 2,461 2024 est.
- Land area
- 974.6 sq mi + 20.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.5 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 33%, Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 33%, Dry Lake basin (does not reach the sea) 13%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- McIntosh County2,050 ft
- Logan County2,000 ft
- Emmons County1,890 ft
- McPherson County, SD1,820 ft
- Campbell County, SD1,800 ft
- LaMoure County1,540 ft
- Dickey County1,530 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Dakota15th highest of 53
- Counties in the United States603rd highest of 3,151
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,890 ft at 46.2696° N, 99.8779° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.