Estelline Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,760 ft 540 m1,730 ft 530 m1,720 ft 525 m1,680 ft 515 m1,650 ft 505 m1,640 ft 500 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Estelline Township sits at about 1,680 ft (515 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,680 ft 515 m

most residents: 1,660–1,740 ft

Lowest

1,640 ft 500 m

on the southeast side

Highest

1,760 ft 540 m

on the northeast side

Average

1,670 ft 510 m

all land inside township boundaries

Estelline Township spans about 120 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	1,680 ft515 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side	1,760 ft540 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side	1,640 ft500 m
Average of all land	1,670 ft510 m

Elevation profile, south to north

6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Estelline Township.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Hamlin County, South Dakota, United States
Population: 330 2024 est.
Land area: 46.5 sq mi + 6.4 sq mi water
Density: 7.1 per sq mi
Coordinates: 44.5798° N, 97.0117° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Big Sioux 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

Claremont Colony1,800 ft
Poinsett Colony1,790 ft
Dempster Township1,730 ft
Florence Township1,710 ft
Lake Poinsett1,710 ft
Norden Township1,690 ft
Laketon Township1,690 ft
Estelline Township1,680 ft
Preston Township1,680 ft
Lake Norden1,680 ft
Estelline1,660 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in South Dakota607th highest of 1,383
Towns in Hamlin County20th highest of 22

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Buffalo Hill2,010 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).
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, 1,630 ft at 44.5515° N, 96.8965° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.