Burr Oak Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,890 ft 575 m1,760 ft 535 m1,690 ft 515 m1,570 ft 475 m1,440 ft 440 m1,370 ft 420 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Burr Oak Township sits at about 1,480 ft (450 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

1,480 ft 450 m

few residents

Lowest

1,370 ft 420 m

on the northeast side

Highest

1,890 ft 575 m

on the southwest side

Average

1,520 ft 465 m

all land inside township boundaries

Burr Oak Township spans about 520 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	1,480 ft450 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side	1,890 ft575 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side	1,370 ft420 m
Average of all land	1,520 ft465 m

Elevation profile, west to east

6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Burr Oak Township.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Beadle County, South Dakota, United States
Population: 36 2024 est.
Land area: 36.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
Density: 1.0 per sq mi
Coordinates: 44.2331° N, 98.6095° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: 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

Harmony Township, Jerauld County1,890 ft
Bates Township1,860 ft
Rose Hill Township1,740 ft
Chery Township1,740 ft
Wessington Springs1,640 ft
Burr Oak Township1,480 ft
Sand Creek Township1,420 ft
Vernon Township, Beadle County1,390 ft
Kellogg Township1,370 ft
Carlyle Township1,340 ft
Virgil1,340 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in South Dakota868th highest of 1,383
Towns in Beadle Countyhighest of 48

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Wessington Hills1,930 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).
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, 1,370 ft at 44.2646° N, 98.5793° 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.