Caputa, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,960 ft 900 m2,940 ft 895 m2,940 ft 895 m2,920 ft 890 m2,910 ft 885 m2,900 ft 885 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Caputa sits at about 2,920 ft (890 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,920 ft 890 m
few residents
Lowest
2,900 ft 885 m
on the east side
Highest
2,960 ft 900 m
on the northeast side
Average
2,920 ft 890 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Caputa spans about 60 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 | 2,920 ft890 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 2,960 ft900 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 2,900 ft885 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Caputa | 2,910 ft885 m |
| Airport (RAP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.5 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 3,204 ft977 m |
| Average of all land | 2,920 ft890 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 32 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 109 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.9939° N, 102.9821° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Rapid Creek → Cheyenne River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Rapid City Regional (RAP) 3,204 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 57703
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Colonial Pine Hills4,060 ft
- Blackhawk3,560 ft
- Hermosa3,320 ft
- Rapid City3,320 ft
- Rapid Valley3,170 ft
- Box Elder3,160 ft
- Ashland Heights3,120 ft
- Green Valley3,050 ft
- Caputa2,920 ft
- New Underwood2,850 ft
- Viewfield Township2,770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota57th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Pennington County10th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Elk Peak7,200 ft
- Green Mountain7,160 ft
- Bear Butte4,427 ft
- Thompson Butte3,457 ft
- Brennan Hill3,310 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Caputa is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.