Humboldt, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,710 ft 520 m1,700 ft 520 m1,690 ft 515 m1,680 ft 510 m1,660 ft 505 m1,660 ft 505 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Humboldt sits at about 1,690 ft (515 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,690 ft 515 m
most residents: 1,680–1,700 ft
Lowest
1,660 ft 505 m
on the east side
Highest
1,710 ft 520 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,690 ft 515 m
all land inside town limits
Humboldt spans about 50 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 | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 1,710 ft520 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 1,660 ft505 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Humboldt | 1,700 ft520 m |
| Average of all land | 1,690 ft515 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 572 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 924 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.6453° N, 97.0739° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Sioux River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 57035
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Humboldt1,690 ft
- Clear Lake Township, Minnehaha County1,690 ft
- Humboldt Township1,660 ft
- Grand Meadow Township1,590 ft
- Hartford1,580 ft
- Hartford Township1,570 ft
- Wellington Township1,560 ft
- Montrose Township1,550 ft
- Greenland Township1,500 ft
- Montrose1,490 ft
- Spring Valley Township1,480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota592nd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Minnehaha Countyhighest of 40
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, 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 town limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.