Akaska, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,910 ft 580 m1,870 ft 570 m1,850 ft 565 m1,810 ft 550 m1,770 ft 540 m1,750 ft 535 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
Town area: Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Akaska sits at about 1,770 ft (540 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,770 ft 540 m

most residents: 1,770–1,800 ft

Lowest

1,750 ft 535 m

on the west side

Highest

1,910 ft 580 m

on the east side

Average

1,780 ft 540 m

all land inside town limits

Akaska spans about 160 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	1,770 ft540 m
Highest point Inside town limits, on the east side	1,910 ft580 m
Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side	1,750 ft535 m
Town center USGS map point for Akaska	1,780 ft540 m
Average of all land	1,780 ft540 m

Elevation profile, west to east

1.0 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Walworth County, South Dakota, United States
Population: 82 2024 est.
Land area: 0.6 sq mi
Density: 134 per sq mi
Coordinates: 45.3325° N, 100.1207° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Great Plains
Drains to: Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 57420

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Java2,090 ft
Gettysburg2,070 ft
Odessa Township1,970 ft
Hudson Township1,910 ft
Hoven1,900 ft
Selby1,900 ft
Lowry1,860 ft
Swift Bird1,840 ft
Akaska1,770 ft
Glenham1,680 ft
Mobridge1,670 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in South Dakota478th highest of 1,383
Towns in Walworth County4th highest of 6

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Twin Buttes, Dewey County2,010 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, 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 town 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.