Santee Reservation, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,920 ft 585 m1,740 ft 530 m1,650 ft 505 m1,470 ft 450 m1,300 ft 395 m1,210 ft 370 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official reservation boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Santee Reservation averages about 1,560 ft (475 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,210 ft on the northeast side to 1,920 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,560 ft 475 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
1,920 ft 585 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the northeast side
Santee Reservation spans about 710 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on the southeast side | 1,920 ft585 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the northeast side | 1,210 ft370 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
18 mi south to north through Hill Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation in Nebraska, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 974 2020 Census
- Land area
- 172.9 sq mi + 11.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.6 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Central Lowland 85%, Great Plains 15%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average
- Flandreau Reservation, SD1,570 ft
- Santee Reservation1,560 ft
- Yankton Reservation, SD1,530 ft
- Ponca (NE) Trust Land1,370 ft
- Winnebago Reservation1,370 ft
- Omaha Reservation1,340 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Tribal lands in Nebraskahighest of 5
- Tribal lands in the United States190th highest of 704
All 6 towns in the reservation by typical elevation
- Lindy1,660 ft
- Harrison Township1,650 ft
- Union Township, Knox County1,550 ft
- Spade Township1,490 ft
- Hill Township1,260 ft
- Santee1,240 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census reservation boundary (TIGER/Line AIANNH, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Name: the Census Bureau's legal or statistical area name, as published; the nation's own name may differ.
- Population: 2020 Census residents of the blocks inside the boundary.
- Nearby Places: nearest tribal lands and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the reservation with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the reservation.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.