Wahpeton, ND Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

990 ft 300 m980 ft 300 m970 ft 295 m960 ft 295 m950 ft 290 m940 ft 290 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

Wahpeton sits at about 970 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

970 ft 295 m

most residents: 960–970 ft

Lowest

940 ft 290 m

on the north side

Highest

990 ft 300 m

on the west side

Average

960 ft 295 m

all land inside city limits

Wahpeton spans about 50 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	970 ft295 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side	990 ft300 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side	940 ft290 m
Town center USGS map point for Wahpeton	960 ft295 m
Airport (BWP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways	968 ft295 m
Average of all land	960 ft295 m

Topographic Map

Location: City in Richland County, North Dakota, United States
Population: 8,115 2024 est.
Land area: 5.4 sq mi
Density: 1,515 per sq mi
Coordinates: 46.2652° N, 96.6059° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Red River → Canada
Airport: Harry Stern (BWP) 968 ft
ZIP codes 2: 58075 58076

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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 Dakota1,554th highest of 1,711
Towns in Richland County38th highest of 50

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.