Scranton, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,850 ft 870 m2,830 ft 860 m2,820 ft 860 m2,800 ft 850 m2,780 ft 845 m2,770 ft 845 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
Scranton sits at about 2,800 ft (855 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,800 ft 855 m
most residents: 2,780–2,830 ft
Lowest
2,760 ft 845 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,850 ft 870 m
on the south side
Average
2,790 ft 850 m
all land inside city limits
Scranton spans about 90 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 | 2,800 ft855 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 2,850 ft870 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 2,760 ft845 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Scranton | 2,780 ft850 m |
| Airport (BWW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.2 mi west of the city limits | 2,965 ft904 m |
| Average of all land | 2,790 ft850 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Bowman County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 250 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 364 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.1481° N, 103.1430° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Buffalo Creek → North Fork Grand River → Grand River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Bowman Regional (BWW) 2,965 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 58653
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Talbot Township2,960 ft
- Boyesen Township2,860 ft
- Fischbein Township2,860 ft
- Stillwater Township2,860 ft
- Whiting Township2,830 ft
- Reeder2,820 ft
- Scranton Township2,820 ft
- Buena Vista Township2,810 ft
- Scranton2,800 ft
- Gascoyne Township2,780 ft
- Gascoyne2,760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota45th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Bowman County24th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Buttes, Bowman County3,305 ft
- Talbot Butte3,260 ft
- Moga Butte2,940 ft
- Warnke Hill2,920 ft
- Cow Butte2,880 ft
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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.