Great Bend Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,300 ft 400 m1,290 ft 395 m1,280 ft 390 m1,270 ft 385 m1,250 ft 380 m1,240 ft 380 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
Great Bend Township sits at about 1,300 ft (395 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,300 ft 395 m
few residents
Lowest
1,240 ft 380 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,300 ft 400 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,290 ft 395 m
all land inside township boundaries
Great Bend Township spans about 60 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 | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,300 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,240 ft380 m |
| Airport (1D8) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.0 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,309 ft399 m |
| Average of all land | 1,290 ft395 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Great Bend Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Spink County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 38 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9191° N, 98.4213° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- James River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Redfield Municipal (1D8) 1,309 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Redfield Township1,310 ft
- Redfield1,300 ft
- Three Rivers Township1,300 ft
- Frankfort1,300 ft
- Clifton Township, Spink County1,300 ft
- Great Bend Township1,300 ft
- Harmony Township, Spink County1,300 ft
- Lodi Township1,290 ft
- Frankfort Township1,290 ft
- Ashton1,290 ft
- Jefferson Township, Spink County1,280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota1,241st highest of 1,383
- Towns in Spink County39th highest of 52
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Mountain, Spink County1,480 ft
- Redfield Hills1,370 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; 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 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, 1,240 ft at 44.8999° N, 98.3560° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.