Faulkton, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,600 ft 490 m1,590 ft 485 m1,580 ft 480 m1,560 ft 475 m1,540 ft 470 m1,530 ft 465 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Faulkton sits at about 1,590 ft (485 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,590 ft 485 m
most residents: 1,570–1,600 ft
Lowest
1,530 ft 465 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,600 ft 490 m
on the west side
Average
1,580 ft 480 m
all land inside city limits
Faulkton spans about 70 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 | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,600 ft490 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Faulkton | 1,580 ft485 m |
| Airport (3FU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.0 mi southeast of the city limits | 1,571 ft479 m |
| Average of all land | 1,580 ft480 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Faulk County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 818 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 808 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.0350° N, 99.1240° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- James River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Faulkton Municipal (3FU) 1,571 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 57438
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Irving Township1,900 ft
- Orient Township1,760 ft
- Bryant Township, Faulk County1,740 ft
- Orient1,610 ft
- Faulkton1,590 ft
- Tamworth Township1,580 ft
- Freedom Township1,580 ft
- Myron Township1,520 ft
- Evergreen Colony1,510 ft
- Arcade Township1,500 ft
- Lafoon Township1,490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota732nd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Faulk County16th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Waters Hill2,030 ft
- Sugar Loaf Hill1,960 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city 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, 1,530 ft at 45.0412° N, 99.1199° 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.