Osceola Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,030 ft 620 m1,840 ft 560 m1,740 ft 530 m1,550 ft 470 m1,350 ft 415 m1,260 ft 385 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
Osceola Township sits at about 1,500 ft (455 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,500 ft 455 m
most residents: 1,350–1,710 ft
Lowest
1,260 ft 385 m
on the north side
Highest
2,030 ft 620 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,670 ft 510 m
all land inside township boundaries
Osceola Township spans about 770 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 | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,030 ft620 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Average of all land | 1,670 ft510 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.9 mi west to east through the middle of Osceola Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Grant County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 159 2024 est.
- Land area
- 42.8 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.2604° N, 96.8938° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Summit2,010 ft
- Farmington Township, Grant County1,950 ft
- Mazeppa Township1,930 ft
- Marvin1,660 ft
- Osceola Township1,500 ft
- Twin Brooks Township1,320 ft
- Springdale Township, Roberts County1,290 ft
- Twin Brooks1,260 ft
- Kilborn Township1,230 ft
- Garfield Township, Roberts County1,180 ft
- Corona1,170 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota838th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Grant County11th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Punished Womans Mound2,080 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,260 ft at 45.3146° N, 96.8629° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.