Bailey Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,960 ft 595 m1,820 ft 555 m1,750 ft 535 m1,610 ft 490 m1,480 ft 450 m1,410 ft 430 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
Bailey Township sits at about 1,730 ft (525 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,730 ft 525 m
few residents
Lowest
1,410 ft 430 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,960 ft 595 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,680 ft 510 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bailey Township spans about 550 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 | 1,730 ft525 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,960 ft595 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Average of all land | 1,680 ft510 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.8 mi south to north through the middle of Bailey Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lyman County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 12 2024 est.
- Land area
- 43.4 sq mi
- Density
- 0.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.7780° N, 99.6630° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Condon Township1,860 ft
- Lone Star Township1,800 ft
- Hamill1,790 ft
- Reliance1,780 ft
- Roseland Township1,770 ft
- Rex Township1,770 ft
- Bailey Township1,730 ft
- Kennebec1,690 ft
- Oacoma Township1,620 ft
- Chamberlain1,440 ft
- Oacoma1,400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota542nd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Lyman County9th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Medicine Butte2,257 ft
- Red Butte, Lyman County1,970 ft
- Lewis Hill1,820 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.