Willis Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,050 ft 625 m1,940 ft 590 m1,880 ft 575 m1,760 ft 540 m1,650 ft 500 m1,590 ft 485 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
Willis Township sits at about 1,770 ft (540 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,770 ft 540 m
most residents: 1,720–1,930 ft
Lowest
1,590 ft 485 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,050 ft 625 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,820 ft 555 m
all land inside township boundaries
Willis Township spans about 460 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 | 1,770 ft540 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 2,050 ft625 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Airport (MOT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi north of the township boundaries | 1,716 ft523 m |
| Average of all land | 1,820 ft555 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Willis Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Ward County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 125 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.1 sq mi
- Density
- 3.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.0591° N, 101.1882° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Souris River → Canada
- Airport
- Minot International (MOT) 1,716 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gasman Township2,160 ft
- Freedom Township1,940 ft
- Newman Township1,890 ft
- Brillian Township1,800 ft
- Willis Township1,770 ft
- Afton Township1,750 ft
- Sawyer Township1,680 ft
- Sundre Township1,670 ft
- New Prairie Township1,580 ft
- Logan1,550 ft
- Sawyer1,540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota629th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Ward County46th highest of 72
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Buttes, Ward County2,160 ft
- Skinner Hill1,730 ft
- Black Butte, Ward County1,710 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.