Chamberlain, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,750 ft 530 m1,650 ft 500 m1,600 ft 485 m1,500 ft 460 m1,400 ft 430 m1,360 ft 415 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
City area: Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Chamberlain sits at about 1,440 ft (440 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,440 ft 440 m

most residents: 1,390–1,720 ft

Lowest

1,360 ft 415 m

on the west side

Highest

1,750 ft 530 m

on the south side

Average

1,580 ft 485 m

all land inside city limits

Chamberlain spans about 390 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	1,440 ft440 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side	1,750 ft530 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side	1,360 ft415 m
Town center USGS map point for Chamberlain	1,410 ft430 m
Airport (9V9) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways	1,696 ft517 m
Average of all land	1,580 ft485 m

Elevation profile, south to north

3.7 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Brule County, South Dakota, United States
Population: 2,453 2024 est.
Land area: 4.5 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
Density: 548 per sq mi
Coordinates: 43.8108° N, 99.3307° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Great Plains
Drains to: Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Chamberlain Municipal (9V9) 1,696 ft
ZIP codes 1: 57325

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Chamberlain Township1,680 ft
Brule Township, Brule County1,670 ft
Pukwana Township1,640 ft
Cleveland Township, Brule County1,630 ft
Union Township, Brule County1,620 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 Dakota929th highest of 1,383
Towns in Brule Countylowest of 29

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Lewis Hill1,820 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).
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, 1,360 ft at 43.8149° N, 99.3232° 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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.