Mission Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,740 ft 530 m1,660 ft 505 m1,620 ft 495 m1,550 ft 470 m1,470 ft 450 m1,440 ft 435 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Mission Township sits at about 1,490 ft (455 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,490 ft 455 m

most residents: 1,450–1,590 ft

Lowest

1,430 ft 435 m

on the northeast side

Highest

1,740 ft 530 m

on the southwest side

Average

1,480 ft 450 m

all land inside township boundaries

Mission Township spans about 310 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	1,490 ft455 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side	1,740 ft530 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side	1,430 ft435 m
Airport (DVL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.4 mi north of the township boundaries	1,469 ft448 m
Average of all land	1,480 ft450 m

Elevation profile, south to north

6.9 mi south to north through the middle of Mission Township.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Benson County, North Dakota, United States
Population: 919 2024 est.
Land area: 40.0 sq mi + 4.8 sq mi water
Density: 23 per sq mi
Coordinates: 47.9854° N, 98.8667° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Stump Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
Airport: Devils Lake Regional (DVL) 1,469 ft

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Twin Tree Township1,580 ft
Wood Lake Township1,520 ft
Hillsdale Township, Eddy County1,520 ft
Fort Totten1,490 ft
Mission Township1,490 ft
Warwick Township1,480 ft
Poplar Grove Township1,470 ft
South Minnewaukan Township1,470 ft
Devils Lake1,460 ft
Creel Township1,450 ft
Lohnes Township1,440 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in North Dakota1,108th highest of 1,711
Towns in Benson County39th highest of 47

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Sullys Hill1,770 ft
Devils Heart Butte1,720 ft
Crow Hill1,700 ft
Devils Lake Mountain1,640 ft
Lookout Mountain1,580 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.