Afton Township, Sanborn County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,370 ft 420 m1,350 ft 415 m1,340 ft 410 m1,330 ft 405 m1,310 ft 400 m1,300 ft 395 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
Afton Township, Sanborn County sits at about 1,330 ft (405 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,330 ft 405 m
few residents
Lowest
1,300 ft 395 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,370 ft 420 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,330 ft 405 m
all land inside township boundaries
Afton Township, Sanborn County spans about 70 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 | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,370 ft420 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Average of all land | 1,330 ft405 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Afton Township, Sanborn County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Sanborn County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 32 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.5 sq mi
- Density
- 0.9 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.1547° N, 97.9006° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- James 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
- Esmond Township1,440 ft
- Carthage1,430 ft
- Redstone Township1,380 ft
- Miner Township1,360 ft
- Belle Prairie Township1,340 ft
- Afton Township, Sanborn County1,330 ft
- Artesian1,310 ft
- Benedict Township1,310 ft
- Floyd Township1,310 ft
- Pearl Creek Township1,310 ft
- Oneida Township1,300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota1,116th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Sanborn Countyhighest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mound1,310 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).
- 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.