South Cottonwood Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,760 ft 535 m1,720 ft 525 m1,700 ft 520 m1,660 ft 505 m1,620 ft 495 m1,600 ft 485 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
South Cottonwood Township sits at about 1,630 ft (495 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,630 ft 495 m
most residents: 1,620–1,690 ft
Lowest
1,600 ft 485 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,760 ft 535 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,650 ft 505 m
all land inside township boundaries
South Cottonwood Township spans about 160 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 | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,760 ft535 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,600 ft485 m |
| Average of all land | 1,650 ft505 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of South Cottonwood Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Wells County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 44 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.4 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.5517° N, 99.5757° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Rocky Run → James 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
- Haaland Township1,810 ft
- Bowdon1,810 ft
- Speedwell Township1,750 ft
- West Ontario Township1,690 ft
- South Cottonwood Township1,630 ft
- St. Anna Township1,610 ft
- Fessenden1,610 ft
- Oshkosh Township1,600 ft
- Cathay Township1,600 ft
- Germantown Township1,590 ft
- Cathay1,580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota731st highest of 1,711
- Towns in Wells County20th highest of 44
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wagon Wheel Hill2,190 ft
- Hawks Nest2,120 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, 1,600 ft at 47.5718° N, 99.5346° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.