Williston Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,170 ft 660 m2,080 ft 635 m2,040 ft 625 m1,960 ft 600 m1,880 ft 575 m1,840 ft 560 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
Williston Township sits at about 1,970 ft (600 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,970 ft 600 m
most residents: 1,900–2,020 ft
Lowest
1,840 ft 560 m
on the east side
Highest
2,170 ft 660 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,010 ft 610 m
all land inside township boundaries
Williston Township spans about 330 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 | 1,970 ft600 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,170 ft660 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Airport (XWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi north of the township boundaries | 2,356 ft718 m |
| Average of all land | 2,010 ft610 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.6 mi south to north through the middle of Williston Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Williams County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 1,093 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.1 sq mi + 4.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 78 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.1373° N, 103.7006° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Williston Basin International (XWA) 2,356 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mont Township2,270 ft
- Round Prairie Township2,270 ft
- Tri Township2,170 ft
- Judson Township2,130 ft
- Missouri Ridge Township2,120 ft
- Stony Creek Township2,010 ft
- Williston Township1,970 ft
- Trenton Township1,970 ft
- Trenton1,970 ft
- Williston1,900 ft
- Pherrin Township1,890 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota428th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Williams County57th highest of 63
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Crow Fly High Hill2,130 ft
- Plum Pudding Butte (historical)2,120 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. All public domain.