Portland, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,000 ft 305 m990 ft 300 m980 ft 300 m970 ft 295 m960 ft 290 m950 ft 290 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Portland sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 980–990 ft
Lowest
950 ft 290 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,000 ft 305 m
on the southwest side
Average
980 ft 300 m
all land inside city limits
Portland spans about 50 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 950 ft290 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Portland | 980 ft300 m |
| Airport (D56) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.0 mi southeast of the city limits | 977 ft298 m |
| Average of all land | 980 ft300 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Traill County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 582 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 698 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.4983° N, 97.3704° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Goose River → Red River → Canada
- Airport
- Mayville Municipal (D56) 977 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 58274
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Primrose Township1,090 ft
- Enger Township1,090 ft
- Garfield Township1,060 ft
- Viking Township1,010 ft
- Roseville Township1,010 ft
- Portland980 ft
- Morgan Township980 ft
- Lindaas Township980 ft
- Mayville980 ft
- Mayville Township960 ft
- Norway Township940 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota1,536th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Traill County9th highest of 35
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, 950 ft at 47.5054° N, 97.3576° 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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.