Mount Vernon Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,450 ft 445 m1,420 ft 435 m1,400 ft 430 m1,370 ft 420 m1,340 ft 410 m1,320 ft 405 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
Mount Vernon Township sits at about 1,400 ft (425 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,400 ft 425 m
most residents: 1,370–1,430 ft
Lowest
1,320 ft 405 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,450 ft 445 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,400 ft 425 m
all land inside township boundaries
Mount Vernon Township spans about 130 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 | 1,400 ft425 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,450 ft445 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,320 ft405 m |
| Average of all land | 1,400 ft425 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Mount Vernon Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Davison County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 167 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.2 sq mi
- Density
- 4.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.7130° N, 98.2757° 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
- Dudley Township1,570 ft
- Plankinton Township1,510 ft
- Union Township, Davison County1,460 ft
- Hopper Township1,460 ft
- Mount Vernon1,400 ft
- Mount Vernon Township1,400 ft
- Lisbon Township1,380 ft
- Palatine Township1,370 ft
- Beulah Township1,360 ft
- Blendon Township1,340 ft
- Loomis1,300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota973rd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Davison County5th highest of 15
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Medicine Butte (historical), Hanson County1,310 ft
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).
- 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.