Dakota Dunes, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m1,110 ft 340 m1,110 ft 335 m1,090 ft 335 m1,080 ft 330 m1,070 ft 325 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
Dakota Dunes sits at about 1,090 ft (335 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,090 ft 335 m
most residents: 1,090–1,100 ft
Lowest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the east side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the north side
Average
1,100 ft 335 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Dakota Dunes spans about 60 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 | 1,090 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dakota Dunes | 1,090 ft335 m |
| Airport (SUX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.9 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 1,099 ft335 m |
| Average of all land | 1,100 ft335 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Union County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 4,020 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.5 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,628 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4875° N, 96.4864° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Sioux Gateway/brig General Bud Day Field (SUX) 1,099 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 57049
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sioux City, IA1,210 ft
- Hubbard, NE1,160 ft
- Jackson, NE1,120 ft
- Jefferson1,110 ft
- Jefferson Township1,110 ft
- North Sioux City1,110 ft
- South Sioux City, NE1,100 ft
- Dakota City, NE1,100 ft
- Big Sioux Township1,090 ft
- Dakota Dunes1,090 ft
- Sergeant Bluff, IA1,090 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota1,374th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Union Countylowest of 19
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.
- Dakota Dunes 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. All public domain.