Onida, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,890 ft 575 m1,880 ft 575 m1,880 ft 575 m1,870 ft 570 m1,860 ft 565 m1,850 ft 565 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Onida sits at about 1,870 ft (570 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,870 ft 570 m
most residents: 1,870–1,890 ft
Lowest
1,850 ft 565 m
on the west side
Highest
1,890 ft 575 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,870 ft 570 m
all land inside city limits
Onida spans about 40 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 | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,890 ft575 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,850 ft565 m |
| Airport (98D) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.0 mi west of the city limits | 1,885 ft575 m |
| Average of all land | 1,870 ft570 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the middle of Onida.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Sully County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 644 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 958 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.7049° N, 100.0653° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Onida Municipal (98D) 1,885 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 57564
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gettysburg2,070 ft
- Onida1,870 ft
- Agar1,850 ft
- Swift Bird1,840 ft
- Harrold1,800 ft
- Valley Township, Hyde County1,760 ft
- Oahe Acres1,720 ft
- Raber Township1,670 ft
- Cow Creek1,640 ft
- Blunt1,620 ft
- Pierre1,540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota333rd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Sully Countyhighest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Medicine Knoll2,043 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.