New Underwood, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,970 ft 905 m2,930 ft 895 m2,920 ft 890 m2,880 ft 880 m2,850 ft 870 m2,830 ft 865 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
New Underwood sits at about 2,850 ft (865 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,850 ft 865 m
most residents: 2,840–2,860 ft
Lowest
2,840 ft 865 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,970 ft 905 m
on the north side
Average
2,890 ft 880 m
all land inside city limits
New Underwood 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 | 2,850 ft865 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 2,970 ft905 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 2,840 ft865 m |
| Town center USGS map point for New Underwood | 2,840 ft865 m |
| Airport (RAP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi west of the city limits | 3,204 ft977 m |
| Average of all land | 2,890 ft880 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 610 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 367 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0933° N, 102.8363° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Boxelder Creek → Cheyenne River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Rapid City Regional (RAP) 3,204 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 57761
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rapid Valley3,170 ft
- Box Elder3,160 ft
- Ashland Heights3,120 ft
- Green Valley3,050 ft
- Caputa2,920 ft
- New Underwood2,850 ft
- Viewfield Township2,770 ft
- Lakeside Township2,740 ft
- Owanka Township2,710 ft
- Wasta Township2,510 ft
- Wasta2,320 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota65th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Pennington County12th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Elk Peak7,200 ft
- Green Mountain7,160 ft
- Bear Butte4,427 ft
- Thompson Butte3,457 ft
- Swinehart Hill2,760 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.