Oliver County, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,420 ft 740 m2,220 ft 680 m2,130 ft 650 m1,930 ft 590 m1,730 ft 530 m1,630 ft 500 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
Oliver County averages about 2,050 ft (625 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,630 ft on the southeast side to 2,420 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
2,050 ft 625 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,420 ft 740 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
1,630 ft 500 m
on the southeast side
Oliver County spans about 790 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 southwest side | 2,420 ft740 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,630 ft500 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
39 mi west to east through Center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 1,882 2024 est.
- Land area
- 722.4 sq mi + 8.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.6 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
- Oliver County2,050 ft
- Morton County2,030 ft
- Mercer County2,020 ft
- McLean County1,970 ft
- Burleigh County1,890 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Dakota16th highest of 53
- Counties in the United States607th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Red Butte2,290 ft
- Square Butte, Oliver County2,140 ft
- Square Buttes2,050 ft
- Horseshoe Butte, Oliver County2,030 ft
- Stonehouse Butte2,000 ft
The one town in Oliver County
- Center1,980 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 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.
- 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.