Brule Township, Brule County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,760 ft 535 m1,660 ft 505 m1,610 ft 490 m1,510 ft 460 m1,410 ft 430 m1,360 ft 415 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, Brule County sits at about 1,670 ft (510 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,670 ft 510 m
most residents: 1,360–1,700 ft
Lowest
1,360 ft 415 m
on the west side
Highest
1,760 ft 535 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,620 ft 495 m
all land inside township boundaries
Brule Township, Brule County spans about 400 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 | 1,670 ft510 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,760 ft535 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Airport (9V9) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi north of the township boundaries | 1,696 ft517 m |
| Average of all land | 1,620 ft495 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.8 mi west to east through the middle of Brule Township, Brule County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Brule County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 164 2024 est.
- Land area
- 41.9 sq mi + 3.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.9 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.7169° N, 99.3318° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Red Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Chamberlain Municipal (9V9) 1,696 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ola1,750 ft
- Ola Township1,730 ft
- Chamberlain Township1,680 ft
- Brule Township, Brule County1,670 ft
- Pukwana Township1,640 ft
- Oacoma Township1,620 ft
- Red Lake Township1,600 ft
- Pukwana1,560 ft
- West Point Township1,530 ft
- Chamberlain1,440 ft
- Oacoma1,400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota624th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Brule County15th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twilight Butte2,230 ft
- Buffalo Buttes2,210 ft
- Twin Butte, Brule County2,040 ft
- Lewis Hill1,820 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.