Rainy Butte Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,340 ft 1,020 m3,160 ft 965 m3,070 ft 935 m2,890 ft 880 m2,710 ft 825 m2,620 ft 800 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
Rainy Butte Township sits at about 2,780 ft (845 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,780 ft 845 m
few residents
Lowest
2,620 ft 800 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,340 ft 1,020 m
on West Rainy Butte
Average
2,810 ft 855 m
all land inside township boundaries
Rainy Butte Township spans about 720 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 | 2,780 ft845 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on West Rainy Butte | 3,340 ft1,020 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,620 ft800 m |
| Average of all land | 2,810 ft855 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Rainy Butte Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Slope County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 36 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.5117° N, 102.9889° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Cannonball River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hume Township2,830 ft
- Moord Township2,800 ft
- Rainy Butte Township2,780 ft
- Carroll Township2,770 ft
- Kunze Township2,730 ft
- Kennedy Township2,710 ft
- Strehlow Township2,710 ft
- Tepee Butte Township2,620 ft
- New England2,600 ft
- New England Township2,600 ft
- Havelock Township2,560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota51st highest of 1,711
- Towns in Slope County17th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- West Rainy Butte3,340 ft
- East Rainy Butte3,310 ft
- Baldy Butte3,140 ft
- Prairie Hill2,980 ft
- Flagstaff Butte2,870 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).
- 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.