Garden Prairie Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,310 ft 400 m1,300 ft 395 m1,300 ft 395 m1,290 ft 390 m1,280 ft 390 m1,270 ft 390 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Garden Prairie Township sits at about 1,300 ft (395 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,300 ft 395 m

nearly all residents at this height

Lowest

1,270 ft 390 m

on the north side

Highest

1,310 ft 400 m

on the east side

Average

1,300 ft 395 m

all land inside township boundaries

Garden Prairie Township spans about 40 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	1,300 ft395 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side	1,310 ft400 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side	1,270 ft390 m
Average of all land	1,300 ft395 m

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Brown County, South Dakota, United States
Population: 140 2024 est.
Land area: 36.0 sq mi
Density: 3.9 per sq mi
Coordinates: 45.2663° N, 98.2115° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Dry Run → James 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

Bates Township, Brown County1,350 ft
Verdon1,300 ft
West Hanson Township1,300 ft
Ferney1,300 ft
Hutterville Colony1,300 ft
Garden Prairie Township1,300 ft
Stratford1,300 ft
Beotia Township1,300 ft
Brentford1,300 ft
La Prairie Township1,300 ft
East Rondell Township1,290 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in South Dakota1,203rd highest of 1,383
Towns in Brown County39th highest of 60

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 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, 1,270 ft at 45.3013° N, 98.2240° 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.