Cow Creek, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,670 ft 510 m1,650 ft 505 m1,640 ft 500 m1,620 ft 495 m1,610 ft 490 m1,600 ft 485 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.
Area: Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Cow Creek sits at about 1,640 ft (500 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

1,640 ft 500 m

few residents

Lowest

1,600 ft 485 m

on the west side

Highest

1,670 ft 510 m

on the east side

Average

1,640 ft 500 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Cow Creek spans about 70 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	1,640 ft500 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side	1,670 ft510 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side	1,600 ft485 m
Airport (PIR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi southeast of the CDP boundary	1,744 ft532 m
Average of all land	1,640 ft500 m

Elevation profile, west to east

2.5 mi west to east through the middle of Cow Creek.

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sully County, South Dakota, United States
Population: 52 2020 Census
Land area: 1.8 sq mi
Density: 28 per sq mi
Coordinates: 44.5541° N, 100.4762° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Great Plains
Drains to: Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Pierre Regional (PIR) 1,744 ft
ZIP codes 1: 57501

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

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Virgil Township2,110 ft
Kolls Township2,070 ft
Onida1,870 ft
Agar1,850 ft
Swift Bird1,840 ft
Oahe Acres1,720 ft
Raber Township1,670 ft
Cow Creek1,640 ft
Blunt1,620 ft
Pierre1,540 ft
Fort Pierre1,440 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in South Dakota650th highest of 1,383
Towns in Sully Countylowest of 3

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Willow Creek Butte2,093 ft
Snake Butte, Hughes County1,934 ft
Brown Hill1,888 ft
Stony Hill (historical)1,790 ft
Medicine Butte (historical), Stanley County1,660 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.
Cow 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.