Aurora Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,730 ft 530 m1,700 ft 520 m1,690 ft 515 m1,650 ft 505 m1,620 ft 495 m1,610 ft 490 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
Aurora Township sits at about 1,640 ft (500 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,640 ft 500 m
most residents: 1,620–1,670 ft
Lowest
1,610 ft 490 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,730 ft 530 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,650 ft 500 m
all land inside township boundaries
Aurora Township spans about 120 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 | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,730 ft530 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Airport (BKX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.0 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,648 ft502 m |
| Average of all land | 1,650 ft500 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Aurora Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Brookings County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 298 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.3 sq mi
- Density
- 9.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.3332° N, 96.7180° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Sioux River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Brookings Regional (BKX) 1,648 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- White1,790 ft
- Rolland Colony1,750 ft
- Alton Township1,720 ft
- Afton Township1,710 ft
- Bushnell1,690 ft
- Sterling Township1,670 ft
- Brookings1,640 ft
- Aurora Township1,640 ft
- Brookings Township1,630 ft
- Aurora1,630 ft
- Trenton Township1,620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota658th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Brookings County27th highest of 34
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 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, 1,610 ft at 44.2888° N, 96.7557° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.