Velva, ND Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,670 ft 510 m1,630 ft 495 m1,600 ft 490 m1,560 ft 475 m1,520 ft 465 m1,500 ft 455 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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

Velva sits at about 1,510 ft (460 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,510 ft 460 m

most residents: 1,510–1,580 ft

Lowest

1,500 ft 455 m

on the northeast side

Highest

1,670 ft 510 m

on the southwest side

Average

1,530 ft 470 m

all land inside city limits

Velva spans about 170 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	1,510 ft460 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side	1,670 ft510 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side	1,500 ft455 m
Town center USGS map point for Velva	1,510 ft460 m
Average of all land	1,530 ft470 m

Elevation profile, south to north

1.5 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States
Population: 1,054 2024 est.
Land area: 1.1 sq mi
Density: 933 per sq mi
Coordinates: 48.0561° N, 100.9293° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Souris River → Canada
ZIP codes 1: 58790

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Brillian Township1,800 ft
Sawyer Township1,680 ft
Brown Township1,680 ft
Velva Township1,610 ft
Voltaire Township1,610 ft
Lebanon Township1,600 ft
North Prairie Township1,590 ft
Voltaire1,590 ft
Hendrickson Township1,560 ft
Sawyer1,540 ft
Velva1,510 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in North Dakota1,053rd highest of 1,711
Towns in McHenry County38th highest of 58

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Little Butte, McHenry County1,742 ft
Skinner Hill1,730 ft
Black Butte, Ward County1,710 ft
Mikes Peak1,610 ft

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, 1,500 ft at 48.0613° N, 100.9435° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.