Beck-Highland Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,990 ft 910 m2,850 ft 870 m2,790 ft 850 m2,650 ft 810 m2,510 ft 765 m2,450 ft 745 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Beck-Highland Township sits at about 2,650 ft (810 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,650 ft 810 m
few residents
Lowest
2,450 ft 745 m
on the east side
Highest
2,990 ft 910 m
on the north side
Average
2,660 ft 810 m
all land inside township boundaries
Beck-Highland Township spans about 540 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 | 2,650 ft810 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 2,990 ft910 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 2,450 ft745 m |
| Average of all land | 2,660 ft810 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the middle of Beck-Highland Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 11 2024 est.
- Land area
- 71.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.1624° N, 102.6667° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Moreau 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
- Wells Township2,850 ft
- Eagle Township, Meade County2,800 ft
- Antelope Township, Perkins County2,770 ft
- Vrooman Township2,750 ft
- Maltby Township2,710 ft
- Duell Township2,680 ft
- Beck-Highland Township2,650 ft
- Ada Township2,570 ft
- Hall Township2,560 ft
- Chaudoin Township2,530 ft
- Martin Township2,470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota102nd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Perkins County17th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bear Butte4,427 ft
- Rabbit Butte2,900 ft
- Twin Buttes, Perkins County2,760 ft
- Rocky Butte2,730 ft
- Stony Butte, Perkins County2,690 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.