Flat Butte Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,790 ft 850 m2,720 ft 830 m2,680 ft 820 m2,620 ft 795 m2,550 ft 775 m2,510 ft 765 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
Flat Butte Township sits at about 2,600 ft (790 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,600 ft 790 m
few residents
Lowest
2,510 ft 765 m
on the east side
Highest
2,790 ft 850 m
on the west side
Average
2,610 ft 795 m
all land inside township boundaries
Flat Butte Township spans about 280 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 | 2,600 ft790 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 2,790 ft850 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 2,510 ft765 m |
| Average of all land | 2,610 ft795 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Flat Butte Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 7 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.5 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.8784° N, 102.0433° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Bad 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
- Wall2,830 ft
- Fairview Township, Pennington County2,810 ft
- Lake Creek Township2,650 ft
- Quinn2,620 ft
- Quinn Township2,610 ft
- Flat Butte Township2,600 ft
- Conata Township2,570 ft
- Interior Township2,510 ft
- Castle Butte Township2,460 ft
- Cottonwood2,420 ft
- Interior2,370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota113th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Pennington County27th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quinn Butte2,780 ft
- The Castle2,700 ft
- Street Hill2,680 ft
- Big Foot Hill2,630 ft
- Ackerman Hill2,590 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; 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 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, 2,510 ft at 43.8810° N, 102.0238° 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.