Jackson County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,500 ft 1,065 m3,110 ft 945 m2,910 ft 890 m2,520 ft 770 m2,130 ft 650 m1,940 ft 590 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
Jackson County averages about 2,530 ft (770 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,940 ft on the east side to 3,500 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
2,530 ft 770 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,500 ft 1,065 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
1,940 ft 590 m
on the east side
Jackson County spans about 1,560 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 | 2,530 ft770 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 3,500 ft1,065 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 1,940 ft590 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
42 mi south to north through Wanblee.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 2,737 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,863.9 sq mi + 7.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.5 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- 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
- Pennington County3,560 ft
- Bennett County3,170 ft
- Oglala Lakota County3,090 ft
- Jackson County2,530 ft
- Haakon County2,290 ft
- Mellette County2,230 ft
- Jones County2,070 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in South Dakota12th highest of 66
- Counties in the United States480th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Eagle Nest Butte3,410 ft
- Buzzard Butte3,330 ft
- Snake Butte, Jackson County3,020 ft
- Cedar Butte, Jackson County2,770 ft
- Half Dome2,760 ft
All 9 towns in Jackson County by typical elevation
- Wanblee2,650 ft
- Interior Township2,510 ft
- Kadoka2,460 ft
- Cottonwood2,420 ft
- Grandview II Township2,400 ft
- Interior2,370 ft
- Weta Township2,320 ft
- Belvidere2,320 ft
- Wall Township2,310 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; 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.