Corn Creek, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,460 ft 750 m2,420 ft 740 m2,400 ft 730 m2,360 ft 720 m2,320 ft 705 m2,300 ft 700 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Corn Creek sits at about 2,400 ft (730 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,400 ft 730 m
most residents: 2,340–2,400 ft
Lowest
2,300 ft 700 m
on the north side
Highest
2,460 ft 750 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,380 ft 725 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Corn Creek spans about 160 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 | 2,400 ft730 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 2,460 ft750 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 2,300 ft700 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Corn Creek | 2,370 ft720 m |
| Average of all land | 2,380 ft725 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Mellette County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 113 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 56 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.5650° N, 101.2010° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- White River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 57521 57560
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Parmelee2,650 ft
- Blackpipe Township2,590 ft
- Surprise Valley Township2,520 ft
- Norris Township2,510 ft
- Norris2,510 ft
- Corn Creek2,400 ft
- New Surprise Valley Township2,390 ft
- Prospect Township2,330 ft
- Belvidere2,320 ft
- Running Bird Township2,300 ft
- Rocky Ford Township2,220 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota159th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Mellette County5th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cemetery Hill2,640 ft
- Eagle Butte, Jackson County2,640 ft
- Bus Butte2,620 ft
- Coyote Lookout2,580 ft
- Teat Butte2,570 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 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.
- Corn Creek 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.