Scranton Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,040 ft 925 m2,970 ft 905 m2,930 ft 895 m2,860 ft 875 m2,790 ft 850 m2,760 ft 840 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
Scranton Township sits at about 2,820 ft (860 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,820 ft 860 m
most residents: 2,810–2,890 ft
Lowest
2,760 ft 840 m
on the southeast side
Highest
3,040 ft 925 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,850 ft 865 m
all land inside township boundaries
Scranton Township spans about 280 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 | 2,820 ft860 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 3,040 ft925 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,760 ft840 m |
| Airport (BWW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.7 mi west of the township boundaries | 2,965 ft904 m |
| Average of all land | 2,850 ft865 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Scranton Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Bowman County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 74 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.1724° N, 103.1739° 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
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Grainbelt Township2,960 ft
- Talbot Township2,960 ft
- Boyesen Township2,860 ft
- Fischbein Township2,860 ft
- Stillwater Township2,860 ft
- Whiting Township2,830 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 Dakota37th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Bowman County21st highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rattlesnake Butte, Slope County3,370 ft
- Twin Buttes, Bowman County3,305 ft
- Talbot Butte3,260 ft
- Moga Butte2,940 ft
- Warnke Hill2,920 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.