Gayville, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,190 ft 365 m1,180 ft 360 m1,180 ft 360 m1,170 ft 355 m1,160 ft 355 m1,160 ft 355 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
Town area: Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Gayville sits at about 1,170 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,170 ft 355 m

nearly all residents at this height

Lowest

1,160 ft 355 m

on the southwest side

Highest

1,170 ft 355 m

on the north side

Average

1,160 ft 355 m

all land inside town limits

Gayville is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 10 ft, so the figures below sit close together.

Figure	Elevation
Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower	1,170 ft355 m
Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side	1,170 ft355 m
Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side	1,160 ft355 m
Town center USGS map point for Gayville	1,170 ft355 m
Average of all land	1,160 ft355 m

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Yankton County, South Dakota, United States
Population: 379 2024 est.
Land area: 0.2 sq mi
Density: 1,566 per sq mi
Coordinates: 42.8881° N, 97.1723° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 57031

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Wakonda1,390 ft
Bethel Township1,320 ft
St. Helena, NE1,250 ft
Volin Township1,210 ft
Volin1,210 ft
Mission Hill1,180 ft
Gayville1,170 ft
Gayville Township1,160 ft
Meckling Township1,150 ft
Norway Township, Clay County1,150 ft
Meckling1,150 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in South Dakota1,344th highest of 1,383
Towns in Yankton County15th highest of 16

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Spirit Mound1,300 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.