York, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,630 ft 495 m1,620 ft 495 m1,610 ft 490 m1,610 ft 490 m1,600 ft 485 m1,590 ft 485 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
York sits at about 1,610 ft (490 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside city limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,610 ft 490 m
few residents
Lowest
1,590 ft 485 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,630 ft 495 m
on the north side
Average
1,610 ft 490 m
all land inside city limits
York spans about 40 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 | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Town center USGS map point for York | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Airport (D31) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi east of the city limits | 1,508 ft460 m |
| Average of all land | 1,610 ft490 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Benson County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 15 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 72 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.3128° N, 99.5735° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Stump Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Leeds Municipal (D31) 1,508 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 58386
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rush Lake Township1,620 ft
- Twin Lake Township1,620 ft
- Iowa Township1,610 ft
- York1,610 ft
- Knox Township1,610 ft
- Knox1,600 ft
- Beaver Township1,600 ft
- York Township1,580 ft
- Springfield Township1,530 ft
- Leeds Township1,530 ft
- Leeds1,510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota782nd highest of 1,711
- Towns in Benson County10th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Boundary Butte2,520 ft
- The Buttes1,870 ft
- Broken Bone Hill1,710 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the city limits; 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 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.