Wise Township, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,000 ft 610 m1,960 ft 595 m1,930 ft 590 m1,890 ft 575 m1,840 ft 560 m1,820 ft 555 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
Wise Township sits at about 1,850 ft (565 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,850 ft 565 m
most residents: 1,850–1,910 ft
Lowest
1,820 ft 555 m
on the west side
Highest
2,000 ft 610 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,890 ft 575 m
all land inside township boundaries
Wise Township spans about 180 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 | 1,850 ft565 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,000 ft610 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,820 ft555 m |
| Average of all land | 1,890 ft575 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Wise Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in McLean County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 79 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.4 sq mi + 2.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.5409° N, 100.7283° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Byersville Township2,010 ft
- Prophets Township1,990 ft
- Medicine Hill Township1,980 ft
- Mercer1,930 ft
- McClusky Township1,930 ft
- McClusky1,930 ft
- Turtle Lake1,890 ft
- Mercer Township1,890 ft
- Lake Williams Township1,870 ft
- Wise Township1,850 ft
- Turtle Lake Township1,850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota562nd highest of 1,711
- Towns in McLean County36th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dogden Butte2,299 ft
- Klinks Slope2,030 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).
- 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, 1,810 ft at 47.5110° N, 100.7490° 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.