Dayton Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,440 ft 440 m1,390 ft 425 m1,360 ft 415 m1,310 ft 400 m1,260 ft 385 m1,230 ft 375 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Dayton Township sits at about 1,370 ft (420 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,370 ft 420 m
most residents: 1,320–1,410 ft
Lowest
1,230 ft 375 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,440 ft 440 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,370 ft 420 m
all land inside township boundaries
Dayton Township spans about 210 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 | 1,370 ft420 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Airport (FSD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 1,430 ft436 m |
| Average of all land | 1,370 ft420 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.2 mi west to east through the middle of Dayton Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lincoln County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 731 2024 est.
- Land area
- 44.3 sq mi
- Density
- 17 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.3952° N, 96.6187° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Sioux River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Joe Foss Field (FSD) 1,430 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Anderson1,470 ft
- Harrisburg1,420 ft
- La Valley Township1,410 ft
- Rowena1,400 ft
- Springdale Township1,390 ft
- Dayton Township1,370 ft
- Shindler1,370 ft
- Worthing1,360 ft
- Lynn Township1,340 ft
- Canton Township1,300 ft
- Canton1,280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota1,030th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Lincoln County12th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Canton Mounds1,450 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.