Oglala Lakota County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,720 ft 1,135 m3,380 ft 1,030 m3,220 ft 980 m2,890 ft 880 m2,550 ft 780 m2,390 ft 730 m
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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
Oglala Lakota County averages about 3,090 ft (940 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,390 ft on the northeast side to 3,720 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
3,090 ft 940 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,720 ft 1,135 m
on the south side
Lowest
2,390 ft 730 m
on the northeast side
Oglala Lakota County spans about 1,330 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 | 3,090 ft940 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 3,720 ft1,135 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 2,390 ft730 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
48 mi south to north through Pine Ridge.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 13,360 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2,093.6 sq mi + 2.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 6.4 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
- Custer County4,220 ft
- Dawes County, NE3,820 ft
- Sheridan County, NE3,820 ft
- Fall River County3,590 ft
- Pennington County3,560 ft
- Cherry County, NE3,190 ft
- Bennett County3,170 ft
- Oglala Lakota County3,090 ft
- Jackson County2,530 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in South Dakota6th highest of 66
- Counties in the United States367th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Porcupine Butte3,691 ft
- Slim Butte3,610 ft
- Tahc’a Okute Aglehan3,350 ft
- Red Shirt Table3,330 ft
- Bell Butte3,330 ft
All 7 towns in Oglala Lakota County by typical elevation
- Batesland3,400 ft
- Wounded Knee3,280 ft
- Manderson-White Horse Creek3,280 ft
- Pine Ridge3,260 ft
- Porcupine3,100 ft
- Oglala3,030 ft
- Kyle2,920 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.