Bad Nation Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

2,230 ft 680 m2,090 ft 640 m2,020 ft 615 m1,880 ft 575 m1,740 ft 530 m1,670 ft 510 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
Township area: Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).

Elevation Data

Bad Nation Township sits at about 2,030 ft (615 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

2,030 ft 615 m

few residents

Lowest

1,670 ft 510 m

on the northeast side

Highest

2,230 ft 680 m

near the middle

Average

2,010 ft 610 m

all land inside township boundaries

Bad Nation Township spans about 560 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	2,030 ft615 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle	2,230 ft680 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side	1,670 ft510 m
Average of all land	2,010 ft610 m

Elevation profile, west to east

12 mi west to east through the middle of Bad Nation Township.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Mellette County, South Dakota, United States
Population: 30 2024 est.
Land area: 72.1 sq mi
Density: 0.4 per sq mi
Coordinates: 43.5922° N, 100.3653° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Great Plains
Drains to: White 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

Fairview Township, Mellette County2,370 ft
Butte Township2,200 ft
Wood2,150 ft
Mosher Township2,100 ft
Cody Township2,080 ft
Rosebud Township2,070 ft
Bad Nation Township2,030 ft
Zickrick Township1,950 ft
Curlew Township1,930 ft
Pratt Township1,820 ft
Greenwood Township1,810 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in South Dakota243rd highest of 1,383
Towns in Mellette Countylowest of 19

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Rattlesnake Butte, Mellette County2,520 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, 1,670 ft at 43.6510° N, 100.2443° 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.