Brule Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,350 ft 410 m1,290 ft 395 m1,260 ft 385 m1,200 ft 365 m1,150 ft 350 m1,120 ft 340 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
Brule Township sits at about 1,210 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,210 ft 370 m
most residents: 1,130–1,230 ft
Lowest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,350 ft 410 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,180 ft 360 m
all land inside township boundaries
Brule Township spans about 230 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 | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Airport (VMR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.5 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,147 ft350 m |
| Average of all land | 1,180 ft360 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Brule Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Union County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 267 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.3 sq mi
- Density
- 7.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7728° N, 96.7519° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Harold Davidson Field (VMR) 1,147 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sioux Valley Township1,280 ft
- Spink Township1,260 ft
- Vermillion1,230 ft
- Prairie Center Township1,220 ft
- Brule Township1,210 ft
- Fairview Township1,140 ft
- Burbank1,140 ft
- Westfield, IA1,140 ft
- Richland1,130 ft
- Elk Point1,130 ft
- Elk Point Township1,120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota1,324th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Union County10th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Spirit Mound1,300 ft
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).
- 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.