Lawrence County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

7,120 ft 2,170 m6,080 ft 1,855 m5,570 ft 1,695 m4,530 ft 1,380 m3,500 ft 1,070 m2,990 ft 910 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

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

Lawrence County averages about 5,020 ft (1,530 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,990 ft on the northeast side to 7,120 ft on Crooks Tower.

Average elevation

5,020 ft 1,530 m

all land inside the county

Highest

7,120 ft 2,170 m

on Crooks Tower

Lowest

2,990 ft 910 m

on the northeast side

Lawrence County spans about 4,130 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	5,020 ft1,530 m
Highest point Inside the county, on Crooks Tower	7,120 ft2,170 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side	2,990 ft910 m

Elevation profile, south to north

31 mi south to north through Spearfish.

Topographic Map

Location: County in South Dakota, United States
Population: 28,809 2024 est.
Land area: 800.1 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
Density: 36 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

Lawrence County5,020 ft
Weston County, WY4,460 ft
Crook County, WY4,270 ft
Pennington County3,560 ft
Butte County3,010 ft
Meade County2,760 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in South Dakotahighest of 66
Counties in the United States176th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Crooks Tower7,120 ft
Terry Peak7,070 ft
Laird Peak6,906 ft
Custer Peak6,803 ft
Green Mountain, Lawrence County6,660 ft

All 11 towns in Lawrence County by typical elevation

Lead5,310 ft
Central City4,940 ft
Deadwood4,710 ft
Mountain Plains4,230 ft
Boulder Canyon3,970 ft
Crook City3,750 ft
Spearfish3,680 ft
Whitewood3,630 ft
North Spearfish3,560 ft
St. Onge3,430 ft
St. Onge Township3,430 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 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.
Highest ground: the single highest 3DEP cell, 7,130 ft at 44.1437° N, 103.9351° W, has no federal (GNIS) summit name within 980 ft (300 m), so the high point shown is the highest of the 25 highest cells with a GNIS summit within 1,640 ft (500 m).
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.