Okaton Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,440 ft 745 m2,290 ft 700 m2,220 ft 675 m2,070 ft 630 m1,920 ft 585 m1,840 ft 560 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
Okaton Township sits at about 2,210 ft (675 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,210 ft 675 m
few residents
Lowest
1,840 ft 560 m
on the south side
Highest
2,440 ft 745 m
on the southeast side
Average
2,180 ft 665 m
all land inside township boundaries
Okaton Township spans about 600 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 | 2,210 ft675 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,440 ft745 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Okaton Township | 2,350 ft715 m |
| Airport (8F6) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi east of the township boundaries | 2,270 ft692 m |
| Average of all land | 2,180 ft665 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jones County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 36 2024 est.
- Land area
- 45.8 sq mi
- Density
- 0.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.8861° N, 100.8918° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Bad River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Murdo Municipal (8F6) 2,270 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Prospect Township2,330 ft
- Murdo2,310 ft
- Red Fish Township2,250 ft
- Draper2,240 ft
- Okaton2,230 ft
- Rocky Ford Township2,220 ft
- Okaton Township2,210 ft
- Draper Township2,200 ft
- Buffalo Township, Jones County2,200 ft
- Scovil Township2,150 ft
- Mullen Township2,070 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota210th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Jones County4th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Horseshoe Butte2,540 ft
- White Clay Butte2,517 ft
- Flat Top Butte, Jones County2,272 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.