Sawyer Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,820 ft 555 m1,750 ft 530 m1,710 ft 520 m1,630 ft 495 m1,550 ft 470 m1,510 ft 460 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

Sawyer Township sits at about 1,680 ft (515 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,680 ft 515 m

most residents: 1,530–1,710 ft

Lowest

1,510 ft 460 m

on the east side

Highest

1,820 ft 555 m

on the south side

Average

1,690 ft 515 m

all land inside township boundaries

Sawyer Township spans about 310 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	1,680 ft515 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side	1,820 ft555 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side	1,510 ft460 m
Airport (MOT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi northwest of the township boundaries	1,716 ft523 m
Average of all land	1,690 ft515 m

Elevation profile, south to north

6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Sawyer Township.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Ward County, North Dakota, United States
Population: 299 2024 est.
Land area: 35.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
Density: 8.4 per sq mi
Coordinates: 48.0886° N, 101.0955° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Souris River → Canada
Airport: Minot International (MOT) 1,716 ft

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

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Newman Township1,890 ft
Brillian Township1,800 ft
Willis Township1,770 ft
Sawyer Township1,680 ft
Sundre Township1,670 ft
Velva Township1,610 ft
North Prairie Township1,590 ft
New Prairie Township1,580 ft
Logan1,550 ft
Sawyer1,540 ft
Velva1,510 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in North Dakota687th highest of 1,711
Towns in Ward County54th highest of 72

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Twin Buttes, Ward County2,160 ft
Little Butte, McHenry County1,742 ft
Skinner Hill1,730 ft
Black Butte, Ward County1,710 ft
Mikes Peak1,610 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).
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, 1,510 ft at 48.0876° N, 101.0204° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.