Patten Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,010 ft 615 m1,900 ft 580 m1,850 ft 565 m1,740 ft 530 m1,630 ft 500 m1,580 ft 480 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
Patten Township sits at about 1,810 ft (550 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,810 ft 550 m
few residents
Lowest
1,580 ft 480 m
on the south side
Highest
2,010 ft 615 m
on the west side
Average
1,800 ft 545 m
all land inside township boundaries
Patten Township spans about 430 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 | 1,810 ft550 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 2,010 ft615 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,580 ft480 m |
| Average of all land | 1,800 ft545 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Patten Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Aurora County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 40 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.9066° N, 98.7080° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- James River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Crow Lake Township1,830 ft
- Anina Township1,810 ft
- Patten Township1,810 ft
- Willow Lake Township1,770 ft
- Logan Township, Jerauld County1,710 ft
- Plummer Township1,700 ft
- Lake Township, Aurora County1,620 ft
- Pleasant Valley Township, Aurora County1,620 ft
- Cooper Township1,590 ft
- Viola Township1,480 ft
- Bristol Township, Aurora County1,480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota418th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Aurora Countyhighest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wessington Hills1,930 ft
- Archer Hill1,690 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).
- 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, 1,580 ft at 43.8493° N, 98.7087° 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.