Minot, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,790 ft 545 m1,730 ft 525 m1,690 ft 515 m1,630 ft 495 m1,570 ft 475 m1,530 ft 465 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Minot sits at about 1,720 ft (525 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,720 ft 525 m
most residents: 1,550–1,760 ft
Lowest
1,530 ft 465 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,790 ft 545 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,660 ft 505 m
all land inside city limits
Minot spans about 260 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 | 1,720 ft525 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Minot | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Airport (MOT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,716 ft523 m |
| Average of all land | 1,660 ft505 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Ward County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 47,440 2024 est.
- Land area
- 27.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,702 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.2325° N, 101.2963° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Souris River → Canada
- Airport
- Minot International (MOT) 1,716 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 58701 58703 58707
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Burt Township1,950 ft
- Afton Township1,750 ft
- Minot1,720 ft
- Burlington Township1,690 ft
- Sundre Township1,670 ft
- Eureka Township1,670 ft
- Harrison Township1,660 ft
- McKinley Township1,630 ft
- Surrey1,620 ft
- Nedrose Township1,620 ft
- Burlington1,590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota671st highest of 1,711
- Towns in Ward County49th 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 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.