Fall River County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,840 ft 1,475 m4,340 ft 1,325 m4,090 ft 1,245 m3,590 ft 1,095 m3,090 ft 940 m2,840 ft 865 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fall River County averages about 3,590 ft (1,095 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,840 ft on the northeast side to 4,842 ft on Parker Peak.
Average elevation
3,590 ft 1,095 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,842 ft 1,476 m
on Parker Peak
Lowest
2,840 ft 865 m
on the northeast side
Fall River County spans about 2,000 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 3,590 ft1,095 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Parker Peak (NGS survey height) | 4,842 ft1,476 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 2,840 ft865 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
53 mi west to east through Hot Springs.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 7,359 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,739.9 sq mi + 9.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.2 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Niobrara County, WY4,530 ft
- Sioux County, NE4,440 ft
- Custer County4,220 ft
- Dawes County, NE3,820 ft
- Fall River County3,590 ft
- Oglala Lakota County3,090 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in South Dakota3rd highest of 66
- Counties in the United States302nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Parker Peak4,842 ft
- Matias Peak4,770 ft
- Horse Trap Mountain4,690 ft
- Flint Hill4,480 ft
- Chilson Mountain4,470 ft
All 12 towns in Fall River County by typical elevation
- Provo Township3,790 ft
- Provo3,730 ft
- Argentine Township3,620 ft
- Ardmore3,560 ft
- Hot Springs3,540 ft
- Edgemont3,470 ft
- Dudley3,430 ft
- Angostura3,400 ft
- Oelrichs3,370 ft
- Smithwick3,280 ft
- Maverick Junction3,260 ft
- Oral2,960 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.