Hyde County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

2,210 ft 675 m2,010 ft 615 m1,910 ft 585 m1,720 ft 525 m1,520 ft 465 m1,420 ft 435 m

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USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Hyde County averages about 1,860 ft (565 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,420 ft on the south side to 2,210 ft on the south side.

Average elevation

1,860 ft 565 m

all land inside the county

Highest

2,210 ft 675 m

on the south side

Lowest

1,420 ft 435 m

on the south side

Hyde County spans about 790 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	1,860 ft565 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the south side	2,210 ft675 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side	1,420 ft435 m

Elevation profile, south to north

49 mi south to north through Highmore.

Topographic Map

Location: County in South Dakota, United States
Population: 1,215 2024 est.
Land area: 860.6 sq mi + 5.6 sq mi water
Density: 1.4 per sq mi
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Great Plains
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Potter County1,950 ft
Hyde County1,860 ft
Sully County1,810 ft
Lyman County1,780 ft
Hughes County1,730 ft
Buffalo County1,670 ft
Hand County1,660 ft
Faulk County1,630 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in South Dakota24th highest of 66
Counties in the United States670th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Peno Hill (historical)2,140 ft
Bald Hills2,030 ft

All 4 towns in Hyde County by typical elevation

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.