Turtle Lake, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,920 ft 585 m1,900 ft 580 m1,890 ft 575 m1,870 ft 570 m1,850 ft 565 m1,840 ft 560 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Turtle Lake sits at about 1,890 ft (575 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,890 ft 575 m
most residents: 1,880–1,910 ft
Lowest
1,840 ft 560 m
on the north side
Highest
1,920 ft 585 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,880 ft 575 m
all land inside city limits
Turtle Lake spans about 80 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 | 1,890 ft575 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,920 ft585 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Turtle Lake | 1,890 ft575 m |
| Average of all land | 1,880 ft575 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in McLean County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 532 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,039 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.5200° N, 100.8901° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 58575
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Underwood2,030 ft
- Medicine Hill Township1,980 ft
- Horseshoe Valley Township1,980 ft
- Greatstone Township1,950 ft
- Mercer1,930 ft
- Turtle Lake1,890 ft
- Mercer Township1,890 ft
- Malcolm Township1,870 ft
- Lake Williams Township1,870 ft
- Wise Township1,850 ft
- Turtle Lake Township1,850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota524th highest of 1,711
- Towns in McLean County30th highest of 40
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).
- 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, 1,840 ft at 47.5299° N, 100.8876° 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, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.