Ardmore, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,580 ft 1,090 m3,570 ft 1,090 m3,560 ft 1,085 m3,560 ft 1,085 m3,550 ft 1,080 m3,540 ft 1,080 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ardmore sits at about 3,560 ft (1,085 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
3,560 ft 1,085 m
few residents
Lowest
3,540 ft 1,080 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,560 ft 1,085 m
on the south side
Average
3,560 ft 1,085 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Ardmore is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 3,560 ft1,085 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 3,560 ft1,085 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 3,540 ft1,080 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ardmore | 3,560 ft1,085 m |
| Average of all land | 3,560 ft1,085 m |
Altitude Effects
What 3,560 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.4 °F96.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.3 inHg (89.0 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.4% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Fall River County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 1 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 2.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0194° N, 103.6563° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Hat Creek → Cheyenne River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 57735
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Harrison, NE4,870 ft
- Provo Township3,790 ft
- Provo3,730 ft
- Crawford, NE3,690 ft
- Ardmore3,560 ft
- Edgemont3,470 ft
- Dudley3,430 ft
- Whitney, NE3,410 ft
- Angostura3,400 ft
- Oelrichs3,370 ft
- Smithwick3,280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota22nd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Fall River County4th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Elk Peak7,200 ft
- Hunter Hill3,680 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; 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 CDP boundary (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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.
- Ardmore is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.