Hamilton Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,770 ft 540 m1,670 ft 510 m1,610 ft 490 m1,510 ft 460 m1,400 ft 425 m1,340 ft 410 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
Hamilton Township sits at about 1,600 ft (490 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,600 ft 490 m
most residents: 1,540–1,690 ft
Lowest
1,340 ft 410 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,770 ft 540 m
on the east side
Average
1,540 ft 470 m
all land inside township boundaries
Hamilton Township spans about 430 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 | 1,600 ft490 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,770 ft540 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Average of all land | 1,540 ft470 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.2 mi west to east through the middle of Hamilton Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Charles Mix County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 54 2024 est.
- Land area
- 22.5 sq mi + 4.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.2936° N, 98.9778° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Schriever Township1,870 ft
- La Roche Township1,700 ft
- Lake George Township1,670 ft
- Signal Township1,640 ft
- Darlington Township1,640 ft
- Rhoda Township1,620 ft
- Forbes Township1,620 ft
- Platte1,610 ft
- Hamilton Township1,600 ft
- Jackson Township1,580 ft
- Platte Township1,570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota723rd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Charles Mix County14th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Burnt Rock (historical)2,050 ft
- Devils Grave Hill1,960 ft
- Took Tay Hill1,940 ft
- Scalp Butte1,890 ft
- Red Rock1,800 ft
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).
- 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.