Dakota Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,740 ft 835 m2,520 ft 770 m2,420 ft 735 m2,210 ft 675 m2,000 ft 610 m1,890 ft 575 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Dakota Township sits at about 2,430 ft (740 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,430 ft 740 m
most residents: 2,150–2,610 ft
Lowest
1,890 ft 575 m
on the east side
Highest
2,740 ft 835 m
on the west side
Average
2,300 ft 700 m
all land inside township boundaries
Dakota Township spans about 850 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 | 2,430 ft740 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 2,740 ft835 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,890 ft575 m |
| Average of all land | 2,300 ft700 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
12 mi west to east through the middle of Dakota Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Meade County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 31 2024 est.
- Land area
- 120.9 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5524° N, 102.2054° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Cheyenne 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
- Upper Red Owl Township2,880 ft
- Huron Township2,870 ft
- Ash Township, Pennington County2,680 ft
- Elm Springs Township2,550 ft
- Sunnyside Township2,510 ft
- Rainy Creek/Cheyenne Township2,480 ft
- Union Township, Meade County2,480 ft
- Smithville Township2,460 ft
- Howard Township, Meade County2,440 ft
- Dakota Township2,430 ft
- Bridger1,870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota151st highest of 1,383
- Towns in Meade Countylowest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bear Butte4,427 ft
- Stony Buttes2,770 ft
- Marvin Butte2,620 ft
- Poverty Point2,447 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.