Horse Creek Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,910 ft 890 m2,820 ft 860 m2,770 ft 845 m2,680 ft 815 m2,580 ft 785 m2,540 ft 775 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
Horse Creek Township sits at about 2,720 ft (830 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,720 ft 830 m
few residents
Lowest
2,540 ft 775 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,910 ft 890 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,720 ft 830 m
all land inside township boundaries
Horse Creek Township spans about 370 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 | 2,720 ft830 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 2,910 ft890 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,540 ft775 m |
| Average of all land | 2,720 ft830 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.7 mi south to north through the middle of Horse Creek Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 40 2024 est.
- Land area
- 52.0 sq mi
- Density
- 0.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.8706° N, 102.8544° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- North Fork Grand River → Grand River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wilson Township, Perkins County2,810 ft
- Lodgepole Township2,780 ft
- Bucyrus, ND2,780 ft
- Haley Township, ND2,720 ft
- Hettinger Township, ND2,720 ft
- Horse Creek Township2,720 ft
- Hettinger, ND2,720 ft
- Lightning Creek Township, ND2,680 ft
- Glendo Township2,650 ft
- Sidney Township2,630 ft
- Grand River Township2,600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota90th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Perkins County12th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Little Two Top Butte3,200 ft
- Mud Butte, Harding County3,150 ft
- Castle Butte2,920 ft
- Kid Rich Butte2,770 ft
- Wolf Butte2,750 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, 2,530 ft at 45.9201° N, 102.8201° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.