Cottonwood, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,520 ft 770 m2,490 ft 760 m2,470 ft 755 m2,440 ft 745 m2,400 ft 735 m2,390 ft 730 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cottonwood sits at about 2,420 ft (735 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside town limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,420 ft 735 m
few residents
Lowest
2,390 ft 730 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,520 ft 770 m
on the north side
Average
2,430 ft 740 m
all land inside town limits
Cottonwood spans about 130 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 | 2,420 ft735 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 2,520 ft770 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 2,390 ft730 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cottonwood | 2,420 ft740 m |
| Average of all land | 2,430 ft740 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Jackson County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 10 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 11 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.9669° N, 101.9060° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Bad River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 57567
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lake Hill Township2,770 ft
- Peno Township2,680 ft
- Lake Creek Township2,650 ft
- Quinn2,620 ft
- Quinn Township2,610 ft
- Flat Butte Township2,600 ft
- Interior Township2,510 ft
- Castle Butte Township2,460 ft
- Cottonwood2,420 ft
- Grandview II Township2,400 ft
- Philip2,210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota155th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Jackson County4th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Street Hill2,680 ft
- Big Foot Hill2,630 ft
- Ackerman Hill2,590 ft
- Walker Hill2,570 ft
- Hinton-Coleman Hill2,520 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the town limits; 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 town 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, 2,390 ft at 43.9576° N, 101.8996° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.