Garden City, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,870 ft 570 m1,860 ft 565 m1,850 ft 565 m1,850 ft 565 m1,840 ft 560 m1,830 ft 560 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
Garden City sits at about 1,850 ft (565 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside town limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,850 ft 565 m
few residents
Lowest
1,830 ft 560 m
on the north side
Highest
1,860 ft 570 m
on the west side
Average
1,850 ft 565 m
all land inside town limits
Garden City spans about 30 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 | 1,850 ft565 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 1,860 ft570 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 1,830 ft560 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Garden City | 1,860 ft565 m |
| Airport (8D7) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi southwest of the town limits | 1,793 ft547 m |
| Average of all land | 1,850 ft565 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Clark County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 36 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 91 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9583° N, 97.5815° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Dry Lake Number One basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Clark County (8D7) 1,793 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 57236
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Eden Township, Clark County1,870 ft
- Garden City1,850 ft
- Maydell Township1,850 ft
- Henry1,820 ft
- Thorp Township1,800 ft
- Elrod Township1,800 ft
- Mount Pleasant Township1,790 ft
- Hillcrest Colony1,790 ft
- Silver Lake Colony1,780 ft
- Day Township1,780 ft
- Graceland Township1,780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota357th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Clark County2nd highest of 40
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the town limits; 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 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. All public domain.