Plainfield Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,750 ft 535 m1,710 ft 520 m1,680 ft 510 m1,630 ft 495 m1,580 ft 485 m1,560 ft 475 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
Plainfield Township sits at about 1,650 ft (505 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,650 ft 505 m
few residents
Lowest
1,560 ft 475 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,750 ft 535 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,650 ft 505 m
all land inside township boundaries
Plainfield Township spans about 190 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 | 1,650 ft505 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,750 ft535 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Average of all land | 1,650 ft505 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Plainfield Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Brule County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 32 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.9 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.7159° N, 98.8846° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Platte Creek → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kimball1,780 ft
- Willow Lake Township1,770 ft
- Waldro Township1,700 ft
- Kimball Township1,700 ft
- Highland Township, Brule County1,670 ft
- Plainfield Township1,650 ft
- White Lake1,640 ft
- Gales Township1,640 ft
- Grass Ranch Colony1,640 ft
- White Lake Township1,630 ft
- Wilbur Township1,620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota642nd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Brule County17th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- 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).
- 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.