Oral, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,120 ft 950 m3,070 ft 935 m3,050 ft 930 m3,000 ft 915 m2,950 ft 900 m2,920 ft 890 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Oral sits at about 2,960 ft (905 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,960 ft 905 m
most residents: 2,950–3,090 ft
Lowest
2,920 ft 890 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,120 ft 950 m
on the east side
Average
3,010 ft 915 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Oral spans about 200 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 | 2,960 ft905 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 3,120 ft950 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 2,920 ft890 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Oral | 2,970 ft905 m |
| Airport (HSR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.0 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 3,150 ft960 m |
| Average of all land | 3,010 ft915 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Fall River County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 66 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 39 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.4050° N, 103.2691° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Cheyenne River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Hot Springs Municipal (HSR) 3,150 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 57766
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pringle4,890 ft
- Hot Springs3,540 ft
- Edgemont3,470 ft
- Dudley3,430 ft
- Angostura3,400 ft
- Oelrichs3,370 ft
- Fairburn3,300 ft
- Smithwick3,280 ft
- Buffalo Gap3,270 ft
- Maverick Junction3,260 ft
- Oral2,960 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota54th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Fall River Countylowest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Elk Peak7,200 ft
- Green Mountain7,160 ft
- Battle Mountain4,410 ft
- Unkpapa Peak4,290 ft
- Windy Butte3,550 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Oral is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.