Fruitdale, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,010 ft 915 m2,980 ft 910 m2,970 ft 905 m2,950 ft 900 m2,920 ft 890 m2,910 ft 885 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fruitdale sits at about 2,950 ft (900 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,950 ft 900 m
most residents: 2,930–2,980 ft
Lowest
2,910 ft 885 m
on the southwest side
Highest
3,010 ft 915 m
on the northeast side
Average
2,960 ft 900 m
all land inside town limits
Fruitdale spans about 100 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 | 2,950 ft900 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 3,010 ft915 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 2,910 ft885 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fruitdale | 2,950 ft900 m |
| Airport (EFC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.0 mi northwest of the town limits | 3,191 ft973 m |
| Average of all land | 2,960 ft900 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Butte County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 80 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 292 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6683° N, 103.6971° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Belle Fourche River → Cheyenne River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Belle Fourche Municipal (EFC) 3,191 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 57717
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Spearfish3,680 ft
- Whitewood3,630 ft
- North Spearfish3,560 ft
- St. Onge3,430 ft
- St. Onge Township3,430 ft
- Belle Fourche3,090 ft
- Fruitdale2,950 ft
- Nisland2,850 ft
- Newell2,840 ft
- Vale2,770 ft
- Vale Township2,770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota55th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Butte County2nd highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Elk Peak7,200 ft
- Green Mountain7,160 ft
- Warren Peaks6,650 ft
- Bear Butte4,427 ft
- Haystack Buttes3,320 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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.