South Viking Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,620 ft 495 m1,570 ft 480 m1,550 ft 470 m1,500 ft 460 m1,450 ft 445 m1,430 ft 435 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 Viking Township sits at about 1,550 ft (475 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,550 ft 475 m
few residents
Lowest
1,430 ft 435 m
on the east side
Highest
1,620 ft 495 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,540 ft 470 m
all land inside township boundaries
South Viking Township spans about 190 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,550 ft475 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Airport (6D3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi north of the township boundaries | 1,600 ft488 m |
| Average of all land | 1,540 ft470 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of South Viking Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Benson County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 46 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.6 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.8926° N, 99.5005° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Sheyenne River → Red River → Canada
- Airport
- Maddock Municipal (6D3) 1,600 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hesper Township1,600 ft
- Heimdal Township1,590 ft
- North Viking Township1,590 ft
- Heimdal1,590 ft
- Maddock1,580 ft
- Norway Lake Township1,580 ft
- Aurora Township1,570 ft
- South Viking Township1,550 ft
- Hamberg1,550 ft
- Arne Township1,540 ft
- West Antelope Township1,540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota920th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Benson County27th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Butte de Morale1,750 ft
- Black Hammer Hill1,700 ft
- Sams Hill1,500 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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, 1,430 ft at 47.8885° N, 99.4349° 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. All public domain.