Garfield Township, Hamlin County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,900 ft 580 m1,860 ft 570 m1,840 ft 560 m1,800 ft 550 m1,760 ft 535 m1,740 ft 530 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
Garfield Township, Hamlin County sits at about 1,800 ft (550 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,800 ft 550 m
most residents: 1,790–1,840 ft
Lowest
1,740 ft 530 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,900 ft 580 m
near the middle
Average
1,820 ft 555 m
all land inside township boundaries
Garfield Township, Hamlin County spans about 160 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 | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 1,900 ft580 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,740 ft530 m |
| Average of all land | 1,820 ft555 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Garfield Township, Hamlin County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Hamlin County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 132 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6016° N, 97.4212° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Sioux 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
- Erwin1,860 ft
- Bryant1,840 ft
- Vienna1,820 ft
- Dixon Township1,820 ft
- Hartland Township1,810 ft
- Garfield Township, Hamlin County1,800 ft
- Washington Township, Clark County1,800 ft
- Mayfield Colony1,770 ft
- Spirit Lake Township1,750 ft
- Opdahl Township1,730 ft
- Cleveland Township1,720 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota421st highest of 1,383
- Towns in Hamlin County4th highest of 22
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, 1,740 ft at 44.5640° N, 97.3726° 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.