Petersburg Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,580 ft 480 m1,530 ft 465 m1,500 ft 460 m1,450 ft 440 m1,400 ft 425 m1,380 ft 420 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Petersburg Township sits at about 1,520 ft (460 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,520 ft 460 m
few residents
Lowest
1,380 ft 420 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,580 ft 480 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,510 ft 460 m
all land inside township boundaries
Petersburg Township spans about 200 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 | 1,520 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,580 ft480 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Average of all land | 1,510 ft460 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.0 mi west to east through the middle of Petersburg Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Nelson County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 46 2024 est.
- Land area
- 46.3 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.9620° N, 97.9790° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Goose River → Red River → Canada
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Petersburg1,530 ft
- Michigan Township, Nelson County1,520 ft
- Michigan City1,520 ft
- Petersburg Township1,520 ft
- Nash Township1,510 ft
- Melvin Township1,510 ft
- Adler Township1,500 ft
- Niagara1,440 ft
- Moraine Township1,370 ft
- Plymouth Township1,360 ft
- Niagara Township1,360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota1,031st highest of 1,711
- Towns in Nelson County9th highest of 35
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).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.