Dry Wood Lake Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,100 ft 640 m1,940 ft 590 m1,860 ft 565 m1,700 ft 520 m1,540 ft 470 m1,460 ft 445 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
Dry Wood Lake Township sits at about 1,960 ft (595 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,960 ft 595 m
most residents: 1,620–2,030 ft
Lowest
1,460 ft 445 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,100 ft 640 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,930 ft 590 m
all land inside township boundaries
Dry Wood Lake Township spans about 640 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 | 1,960 ft595 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,100 ft640 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Airport (8D3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 1,162 ft354 m |
| Average of all land | 1,930 ft590 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Dry Wood Lake Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Roberts County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 104 2024 est.
- Land area
- 31.6 sq mi + 4.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.6099° N, 97.1504° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Sisseton Municipal (8D3) 1,162 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- One Road Township1,980 ft
- Dry Wood Lake Township1,960 ft
- Red Iron Lake Township1,890 ft
- Buffalo Township, Marshall County1,870 ft
- Long Hollow Township1,660 ft
- Long Hollow1,660 ft
- Goodwill Township1,500 ft
- Agency Village1,500 ft
- Agency Township1,460 ft
- Sisseton1,220 ft
- Sisseton Township1,220 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota271st highest of 1,383
- Towns in Roberts County6th highest of 44
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Six Mile Hill1,960 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.