Fort Pierre, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,700 ft 520 m1,630 ft 495 m1,600 ft 485 m1,530 ft 465 m1,460 ft 445 m1,420 ft 435 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fort Pierre sits at about 1,440 ft (435 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,440 ft 435 m
most residents: 1,430–1,500 ft
Lowest
1,420 ft 435 m
near the middle
Highest
1,700 ft 520 m
on the west side
Average
1,460 ft 445 m
all land inside city limits
Fort Pierre 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 Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,440 ft435 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,700 ft520 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fort Pierre | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Airport (PIR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi northeast of the city limits | 1,744 ft532 m |
| Average of all land | 1,460 ft445 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Stanley County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 2,158 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.1 sq mi
- Density
- 692 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.3536° N, 100.3737° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Pierre Regional (PIR) 1,744 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 57532
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Draper Township2,200 ft
- Virgil Township2,110 ft
- Kolls Township2,070 ft
- Vivian Township1,900 ft
- Onida1,870 ft
- Oahe Acres1,720 ft
- Raber Township1,670 ft
- Cow Creek1,640 ft
- Blunt1,620 ft
- Pierre1,540 ft
- Fort Pierre1,440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota936th highest of 1,383
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Snake Butte, Hughes County1,934 ft
- Brown Hill1,888 ft
- Stony Hill (historical)1,790 ft
- Verendrye Hill1,710 ft
- Medicine Butte (historical), Stanley County1,660 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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.