Howard Township, Meade County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,630 ft 800 m2,530 ft 770 m2,480 ft 755 m2,370 ft 725 m2,270 ft 690 m2,220 ft 675 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
Howard Township, Meade County sits at about 2,440 ft (740 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,440 ft 740 m
few residents
Lowest
2,220 ft 675 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,630 ft 800 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,440 ft 745 m
all land inside township boundaries
Howard Township, Meade County spans about 410 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 | 2,440 ft740 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,630 ft800 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,220 ft675 m |
| Average of all land | 2,440 ft745 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.9 mi south to north through the middle of Howard Township, Meade County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Meade County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 18 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.9 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6557° N, 102.0846° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Cheyenne 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
- Upper Red Owl Township2,880 ft
- Ash Township, Pennington County2,680 ft
- Faith2,580 ft
- Elm Springs Township2,550 ft
- Sunnyside Township2,510 ft
- Rainy Creek/Cheyenne Township2,480 ft
- Union Township, Meade County2,480 ft
- Howard Township, Meade County2,440 ft
- Dakota Township2,430 ft
- Bridger1,870 ft
- Cherry Creek1,730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota149th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Meade County15th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mud Butte, Ziebach County2,500 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, 2,220 ft at 44.6121° N, 102.0015° 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.