Hughes County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,060 ft 625 m1,900 ft 580 m1,820 ft 555 m1,660 ft 505 m1,500 ft 455 m1,420 ft 435 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hughes County averages about 1,730 ft (530 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,420 ft on the southeast side to 2,060 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
1,730 ft 530 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,060 ft 625 m
on the east side
Lowest
1,420 ft 435 m
on the southeast side
Hughes County spans about 640 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 | 1,730 ft530 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 2,060 ft625 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,420 ft435 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
35 mi west to east through Pierre.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 17,526 2024 est.
- Land area
- 741.5 sq mi + 59.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 24 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 96%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Stanley County1,890 ft
- Hyde County1,860 ft
- Sully County1,810 ft
- Lyman County1,780 ft
- Hughes County1,730 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in South Dakota33rd highest of 66
- Counties in the United States715th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Medicine Knoll2,043 ft
- Snake Butte, Hughes County1,934 ft
- Stony Hill (historical)1,790 ft
All 5 towns in Hughes County by typical elevation
- Harrold1,800 ft
- Oahe Acres1,720 ft
- Raber Township1,670 ft
- Blunt1,620 ft
- Pierre1,540 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 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; 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.