Harding County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,020 ft 1,225 m3,660 ft 1,115 m3,470 ft 1,060 m3,110 ft 945 m2,740 ft 835 m2,560 ft 780 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Harding County averages about 3,060 ft (935 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,560 ft on the east side to 4,021 ft on Harding Peak.
Average elevation
3,060 ft 935 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,021 ft 1,226 m
on Harding Peak
Lowest
2,560 ft 780 m
on the east side
Harding County spans about 1,460 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 3,060 ft935 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Harding Peak (NGS survey height) | 4,021 ft1,226 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 2,560 ft780 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
53 mi west to east through Buffalo.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 1,325 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2,671.6 sq mi + 6.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.5 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Carter County, MT3,410 ft
- Harding County3,060 ft
- Butte County3,010 ft
- Fallon County, MT3,000 ft
- Bowman County, ND2,940 ft
- Adams County, ND2,630 ft
- Perkins County2,600 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in South Dakota7th highest of 66
- Counties in the United States372nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Harding Peak4,021 ft
- Moreau Peak3,891 ft
- Lone Mountain3,820 ft
- White Cap3,770 ft
- J K Butte3,630 ft
All 2 towns in Harding County by typical elevation
- Camp Crook3,120 ft
- Buffalo2,890 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.