Sterling Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,040 ft 625 m1,970 ft 600 m1,940 ft 590 m1,870 ft 570 m1,800 ft 550 m1,760 ft 535 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
Sterling Township sits at about 1,860 ft (570 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,860 ft 570 m
most residents: 1,810–1,940 ft
Lowest
1,760 ft 535 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,040 ft 625 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,900 ft 580 m
all land inside township boundaries
Sterling 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 | 1,860 ft570 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,040 ft625 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,760 ft535 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sterling Township | 1,830 ft555 m |
| Average of all land | 1,900 ft580 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Burleigh County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 163 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.9 sq mi
- Density
- 4.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.8139° N, 100.2915° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Christiania Township1,880 ft
- Clear Lake Township1,880 ft
- Driscoll1,870 ft
- Driscoll Township1,870 ft
- Sterling Township1,860 ft
- Thelma Township1,850 ft
- Sibley Butte Township1,840 ft
- Taft Township1,770 ft
- Long Lake Township1,760 ft
- McKenzie Township1,760 ft
- Logan Township1,730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota553rd highest of 1,711
- Towns in Burleigh County25th highest of 45
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Solberg Butte2,142 ft
- Sibley Butte2,130 ft
- Potato Hill1,990 ft
- Moffit Butte1,790 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.