Canton, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,340 ft 410 m1,310 ft 400 m1,300 ft 395 m1,260 ft 385 m1,230 ft 375 m1,220 ft 370 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Canton sits at about 1,280 ft (390 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,280 ft 390 m
most residents: 1,250–1,320 ft
Lowest
1,220 ft 370 m
on the south side
Highest
1,340 ft 410 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,270 ft 385 m
all land inside city limits
Canton spans about 120 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 | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Canton | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Airport (7G9) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,290 ft393 m |
| Average of all land | 1,270 ft385 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lincoln County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 2,974 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.3 sq mi
- Density
- 909 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.3008° N, 96.5928° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Sioux River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Canton Municipal (7G9) 1,290 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 57013
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Inwood, IA1,460 ft
- Highland Township, Lincoln County1,460 ft
- La Valley Township1,410 ft
- Fairview Township, Lincoln County1,400 ft
- Lincoln Township, Lincoln County1,380 ft
- Dayton Township1,370 ft
- Worthing1,360 ft
- Lynn Township1,340 ft
- Canton Township1,300 ft
- Canton1,280 ft
- Fairview1,230 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota1,284th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Lincoln County21st highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Canton Mounds1,450 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.