Morton County, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,560 ft 780 m2,320 ft 705 m2,200 ft 670 m1,960 ft 600 m1,720 ft 525 m1,600 ft 490 m
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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
Morton County averages about 2,030 ft (620 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,600 ft on the southeast side to 2,560 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
2,030 ft 620 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,560 ft 780 m
on the west side
Lowest
1,600 ft 490 m
on the southeast side
Morton County spans about 960 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 | 2,030 ft620 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 2,560 ft780 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,600 ft490 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
59 mi west to east through Mandan.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 34,194 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,925.9 sq mi + 19.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 18 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Stark County2,490 ft
- Grant County2,220 ft
- Oliver County2,050 ft
- Morton County2,030 ft
- Sioux County2,020 ft
- Mercer County2,020 ft
- Burleigh County1,890 ft
- Emmons County1,890 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Dakota17th highest of 53
- Counties in the United States613th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Hailstone Butte2,470 ft
- Spring Butte, Morton County2,430 ft
- Chimney Butte, Morton County2,380 ft
- Gaebe Hill2,360 ft
- School Hill2,353 ft
All 8 towns in Morton County by typical elevation
- New Salem2,170 ft
- Hebron2,160 ft
- Glen Ullin2,080 ft
- Flasher1,930 ft
- Almont1,920 ft
- Harmon1,710 ft
- Mandan1,710 ft
- Captain's Landing Township1,640 ft
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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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.