Cooper Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,680 ft 510 m1,640 ft 500 m1,620 ft 495 m1,590 ft 485 m1,550 ft 470 m1,530 ft 465 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
Cooper Township sits at about 1,590 ft (485 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,590 ft 485 m
few residents
Lowest
1,530 ft 465 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,680 ft 510 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,590 ft 485 m
all land inside township boundaries
Cooper Township spans about 150 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 | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,680 ft510 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Average of all land | 1,590 ft485 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.5 mi west to east through the middle of Cooper Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Aurora County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 17 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.9 sq mi
- Density
- 0.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.7812° N, 98.6595° 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
- Patten Township1,810 ft
- Willow Lake Township1,770 ft
- White Lake1,640 ft
- Gales Township1,640 ft
- White Lake Township1,630 ft
- Lake Township, Aurora County1,620 ft
- Eureka Township, Aurora County1,620 ft
- Pleasant Valley Township, Aurora County1,620 ft
- Cooper Township1,590 ft
- Plankinton1,520 ft
- Firesteel Township1,480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota729th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Aurora County14th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Archer Hill1,690 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).
- 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.