Erwin, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,890 ft 575 m1,880 ft 570 m1,870 ft 570 m1,860 ft 570 m1,850 ft 565 m1,850 ft 565 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
Town area: Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Erwin sits at about 1,860 ft (565 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside town limits (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

1,860 ft 565 m

few residents

Lowest

1,850 ft 565 m

on the west side

Highest

1,890 ft 575 m

on the northeast side

Average

1,860 ft 570 m

all land inside town limits

Erwin spans about 40 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	1,860 ft565 m
Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side	1,890 ft575 m
Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side	1,850 ft565 m
Town center USGS map point for Erwin	1,870 ft570 m
Airport (6E5) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.4 mi southwest of the town limits	1,730 ft527 m
Average of all land	1,860 ft570 m

Elevation profile, west to east

1.0 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Kingsbury County, South Dakota, United States
Population: 39 2024 est.
Land area: 0.5 sq mi
Density: 82 per sq mi
Coordinates: 44.4875° N, 97.4451° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: East Fork Vermillion River → Vermillion River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Wilder (6E5) 1,730 ft
ZIP codes 1: 57233

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

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Erwin1,860 ft
Bryant1,840 ft
Hartland Township1,810 ft
Garfield Township, Hamlin County1,800 ft
Washington Township, Clark County1,800 ft
Spirit Lake Township1,750 ft
De Smet Township1,730 ft
De Smet1,720 ft
Baker Township1,720 ft
Lake Preston1,720 ft
Cleveland Township1,720 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in South Dakota347th highest of 1,383
Towns in Kingsbury Countyhighest of 23

How we measure

Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the town limits; 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 town limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,850 ft at 44.4851° N, 97.4324° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.