Riga Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,620 ft 495 m1,580 ft 485 m1,570 ft 480 m1,530 ft 465 m1,500 ft 455 m1,480 ft 450 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
Riga Township sits at about 1,510 ft (460 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,510 ft 460 m
most residents: 1,500–1,520 ft
Lowest
1,480 ft 450 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,620 ft 495 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,510 ft 460 m
all land inside township boundaries
Riga Township spans about 140 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 | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Riga Township | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Average of all land | 1,510 ft460 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 85 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.9 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.2939° N, 100.7074° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Souris River → Canada
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hendrickson Township1,560 ft
- Granville Township1,520 ft
- Rose Hill Township, McHenry County1,520 ft
- Granville1,520 ft
- Kottke Valley Township1,520 ft
- Denbigh Township1,510 ft
- Riga Township1,510 ft
- Egg Creek Township1,500 ft
- Wagar Township1,490 ft
- Saline Township1,490 ft
- Gilmore Township1,490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota1,055th highest of 1,711
- Towns in McHenry County39th highest of 58
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Boundary Butte2,520 ft
- Mikes Peak1,610 ft
- Buffalo Lodge Butte1,600 ft
- Copperdahl Hill1,570 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 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.