McKinley Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,650 ft 505 m1,630 ft 495 m1,610 ft 490 m1,590 ft 485 m1,560 ft 475 m1,550 ft 475 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
McKinley Township sits at about 1,630 ft (495 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,630 ft 495 m
most residents: 1,600–1,640 ft
Lowest
1,550 ft 475 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,650 ft 505 m
on the south side
Average
1,620 ft 495 m
all land inside township boundaries
McKinley Township spans about 100 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 | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,650 ft505 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,550 ft475 m |
| Airport (MOT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.8 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,716 ft523 m |
| Average of all land | 1,620 ft495 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of McKinley Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Ward County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 136 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.5 sq mi
- Density
- 3.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.3125° N, 101.2310° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Souris River → Canada
- Airport
- Minot International (MOT) 1,716 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Minot1,720 ft
- Eureka Township1,670 ft
- Harrison Township1,660 ft
- Ruthville1,650 ft
- McKinley Township1,630 ft
- Minot AFB1,630 ft
- Tatman Township1,630 ft
- Surrey1,620 ft
- Nedrose Township1,620 ft
- Surrey Township1,620 ft
- Maryland Township1,570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota728th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Ward County61st highest of 72
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Boundary Butte2,520 ft
- Twin Buttes, Ward County2,160 ft
- Skinner Hill1,730 ft
- Black Butte, Ward County1,710 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.