Lake Township, Aurora County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,800 ft 550 m1,740 ft 530 m1,710 ft 525 m1,650 ft 505 m1,590 ft 485 m1,560 ft 475 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
Lake Township, Aurora County sits at about 1,620 ft (495 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,620 ft 495 m
few residents
Lowest
1,560 ft 475 m
on the south side
Highest
1,800 ft 550 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,630 ft 495 m
all land inside township boundaries
Lake Township, Aurora County spans about 240 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 | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Average of all land | 1,630 ft495 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the middle of Lake Township, Aurora County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Aurora County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 54 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.2 sq mi + 3.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.8177° N, 98.7218° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Platte Creek → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Crow Lake Township1,830 ft
- Patten Township1,810 ft
- Willow Lake Township1,770 ft
- Plummer Township1,700 ft
- Plainfield Township1,650 ft
- White Lake1,640 ft
- White Lake Township1,630 ft
- Lake Township, Aurora County1,620 ft
- Eureka Township, Aurora County1,620 ft
- Pleasant Valley Township, Aurora County1,620 ft
- Cooper Township1,590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota686th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Aurora County10th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Archer Hill1,690 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.