Independence Township, Day County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,910 ft 585 m1,830 ft 560 m1,790 ft 545 m1,710 ft 520 m1,630 ft 495 m1,590 ft 485 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
Independence Township, Day County sits at about 1,800 ft (550 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,800 ft 550 m
few residents
Lowest
1,590 ft 485 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,910 ft 585 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,780 ft 540 m
all land inside township boundaries
Independence Township, Day County spans about 320 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 | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,910 ft585 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Average of all land | 1,780 ft540 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Independence Township, Day County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Day County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 56 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.0 sq mi + 2.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.5273° N, 97.6934° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- James 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
- Raritan Township1,830 ft
- Fort Township1,820 ft
- Liberty Township, Day County1,810 ft
- Independence Township, Day County1,800 ft
- Lynn Township, Day County1,790 ft
- Sisseton Township, Marshall County1,740 ft
- Union Township, Day County1,660 ft
- Homer Township1,520 ft
- Pierpont1,510 ft
- Hickman Township1,380 ft
- Langford1,370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota423rd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Day County22nd highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Six Mile Hill1,960 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).
- 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.