Herman Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,820 ft 555 m1,780 ft 545 m1,760 ft 540 m1,720 ft 525 m1,690 ft 515 m1,670 ft 510 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
Herman Township sits at about 1,710 ft (520 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,710 ft 520 m
most residents: 1,670–1,780 ft
Lowest
1,670 ft 510 m
on the east side
Highest
1,820 ft 555 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,750 ft 530 m
all land inside township boundaries
Herman Township spans about 150 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 | 1,710 ft520 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,820 ft555 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,670 ft510 m |
| Airport (MDS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.2 mi east of the township boundaries | 1,718 ft524 m |
| Average of all land | 1,750 ft530 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Herman Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lake County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 681 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.6 sq mi + 2.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 21 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.9990° N, 97.1883° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Skunk Creek → Big Sioux River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Madison Municipal (MDS) 1,718 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ramona1,810 ft
- Orland Township1,780 ft
- Concord Township1,780 ft
- Farmington Township1,780 ft
- Le Roy Township1,720 ft
- Winfred Township1,710 ft
- Herman Township1,710 ft
- Madison1,690 ft
- Lake View Township1,620 ft
- Lake Madison1,610 ft
- Graceville Colony1,580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota571st highest of 1,383
- Towns in Lake County13th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Macey Hill1,710 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).
- 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, 1,660 ft at 43.9996° N, 97.1312° 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.