Ipswich Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,640 ft 500 m1,600 ft 490 m1,580 ft 480 m1,540 ft 470 m1,500 ft 455 m1,480 ft 450 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
Ipswich Township sits at about 1,550 ft (470 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,550 ft 470 m
most residents: 1,510–1,570 ft
Lowest
1,480 ft 450 m
on the east side
Highest
1,640 ft 500 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,550 ft 470 m
all land inside township boundaries
Ipswich Township spans about 160 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 | 1,550 ft470 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Average of all land | 1,550 ft470 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the middle of Ipswich Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Edmunds County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 98 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.1 sq mi
- Density
- 2.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.4568° N, 99.0405° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- 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
- Adrian Township1,770 ft
- Huntley Township1,700 ft
- Cleveland Township, Edmunds County1,650 ft
- Plainview Colony1,580 ft
- Rosette Township1,580 ft
- Ipswich Township1,550 ft
- Ipswich1,540 ft
- Harmony Township1,490 ft
- Pembrook Colony1,490 ft
- Fountain Township1,480 ft
- Union Township, Edmunds County1,470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota786th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Edmunds County26th highest of 40
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 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, 1,480 ft at 45.4565° N, 98.9721° 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.