Ada Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,770 ft 845 m2,670 ft 815 m2,630 ft 800 m2,530 ft 770 m2,440 ft 745 m2,390 ft 730 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
Ada Township sits at about 2,570 ft (785 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,570 ft 785 m
few residents
Lowest
2,390 ft 730 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,770 ft 845 m
on Flat Top Butte
Average
2,560 ft 780 m
all land inside township boundaries
Ada Township spans about 380 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 | 2,570 ft785 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Flat Top Butte | 2,770 ft845 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,390 ft730 m |
| Average of all land | 2,560 ft780 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.9 mi south to north through the middle of Ada Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 11 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.4 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.3467° N, 102.4276° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Rabbit Creek → Moreau River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bison2,780 ft
- Bison Township2,760 ft
- Rainbow Township2,710 ft
- Duell Township2,680 ft
- Lone Tree Township, Perkins County2,650 ft
- Chance Township2,600 ft
- Ada Township2,570 ft
- Hall Township2,560 ft
- Chaudoin Township2,530 ft
- Martin Township2,470 ft
- Moreau Township2,410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota120th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Perkins County26th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Flat Top Butte, Perkins County2,770 ft
- Johnny Butte2,750 ft
- Tailor Butte2,700 ft
- Sunrise Butte2,700 ft
- Two Buttes2,590 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; 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 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, 2,390 ft at 45.3007° N, 102.3960° 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. All public domain.