Williams Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,560 ft 475 m1,540 ft 470 m1,530 ft 465 m1,510 ft 460 m1,500 ft 455 m1,490 ft 455 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
Williams Township sits at about 1,520 ft (460 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,520 ft 460 m
few residents
Lowest
1,490 ft 455 m
on the south side
Highest
1,560 ft 475 m
on the south side
Average
1,520 ft 460 m
all land inside township boundaries
Williams Township spans about 70 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,520 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Airport (5L0) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.7 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 1,511 ft461 m |
| Average of all land | 1,520 ft460 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Williams Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Nelson County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 34 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.7 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.9873° N, 98.2367° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Stump Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Lakota Municipal (5L0) 1,511 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lakota1,520 ft
- Michigan Township, Nelson County1,520 ft
- Michigan City1,520 ft
- Williams Township1,520 ft
- Rubin Township1,510 ft
- Bartlett Township1,510 ft
- Lakota Township1,510 ft
- Central Township1,510 ft
- Dodds Township1,500 ft
- Illinois Township1,490 ft
- Wamduska Township1,490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota1,024th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Nelson County7th highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Mountain1,670 ft
- Devils Lake Mountain1,640 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.