Olson Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,540 ft 470 m1,520 ft 465 m1,510 ft 460 m1,490 ft 455 m1,470 ft 450 m1,460 ft 445 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

Olson Township sits at about 1,490 ft (455 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

1,490 ft 455 m

few residents

Lowest

1,460 ft 445 m

on the east side

Highest

1,540 ft 470 m

on the northwest side

Average

1,490 ft 455 m

all land inside township boundaries

Olson Township spans about 80 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by	1,490 ft455 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side	1,540 ft470 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side	1,460 ft445 m
Airport (9D7) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways	1,482 ft452 m
Average of all land	1,490 ft455 m

Elevation profile, west to east

6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Olson Township.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Towner County, North Dakota, United States
Population: 25 2024 est.
Land area: 35.0 sq mi + 1.0 sq mi water
Density: 0.7 per sq mi
Coordinates: 48.4764° N, 99.2952° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Stump Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
Airport: Cando Municipal (9D7) 1,482 ft

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

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Bisbee1,600 ft
Zion Township1,540 ft
Springfield Township1,530 ft
Gerrard Township1,520 ft
Paulson Township1,500 ft
Olson Township1,490 ft
Atkins Township1,490 ft
Cando1,480 ft
Cando Township1,480 ft
Maza Township1,460 ft
Chain Lakes Township1,450 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in North Dakota1,116th highest of 1,711
Towns in Towner County28th highest of 34

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Boundary Butte2,520 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; too few residents live here to weight by people.
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).
Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,460 ft at 48.4615° N, 99.2376° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
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.