Bates Township, Brown County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,450 ft 440 m1,410 ft 430 m1,390 ft 425 m1,350 ft 410 m1,310 ft 400 m1,290 ft 395 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
Bates Township, Brown County sits at about 1,350 ft (410 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,350 ft 410 m
few residents
Lowest
1,290 ft 395 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,450 ft 440 m
on the east side
Average
1,360 ft 415 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bates Township, Brown County 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Average of all land | 1,360 ft415 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Bates Township, Brown County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Brown County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 25 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.7 sq mi
- Density
- 0.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.3056° N, 98.0528° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Dry Run → James 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
- Oak Gulch Township1,750 ft
- Scotland Township1,640 ft
- Conde Township1,360 ft
- Bates Township, Brown County1,350 ft
- Verdon1,300 ft
- East Hanson Township1,300 ft
- West Hanson Township1,300 ft
- Ferney1,300 ft
- Hutterville Colony1,300 ft
- Garden Prairie Township1,300 ft
- Beotia Township1,300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota1,075th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Brown County15th highest of 60
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, 1,290 ft at 45.2821° N, 98.1040° 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.