Thompson, ND Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

890 ft 270 m880 ft 270 m880 ft 265 m870 ft 265 m860 ft 260 m860 ft 260 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Thompson sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

870 ft 265 m

nearly all residents at this height

Lowest

860 ft 260 m

on the east side

Highest

870 ft 265 m

near the middle

Average

870 ft 265 m

all land inside city limits

Thompson is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 10 ft, so the figures below sit close together.

Figure	Elevation
Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower	870 ft265 m
Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle	870 ft265 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side	860 ft260 m
Town center USGS map point for Thompson	870 ft265 m
Airport (GFK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi north of the city limits	845 ft258 m
Average of all land	870 ft265 m

Topographic Map

Location: City in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States
Population: 1,091 2024 est.
Land area: 0.4 sq mi
Density: 2,525 per sq mi
Coordinates: 47.7736° N, 97.1098° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Red River → Canada
Airport: Grand Forks International (GFK) 845 ft
ZIP codes 1: 58278

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in North Dakota1,658th highest of 1,711
Towns in Grand Forks County37th highest of 51

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. All public domain.