Plainview Colony, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,600 ft 485 m1,590 ft 485 m1,590 ft 485 m1,580 ft 480 m1,570 ft 480 m1,560 ft 475 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Plainview Colony sits at about 1,580 ft (480 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,580 ft 480 m
few residents
Lowest
1,560 ft 475 m
on the east side
Highest
1,590 ft 485 m
on the west side
Average
1,580 ft 480 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Plainview Colony spans about 30 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 | 1,580 ft480 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Plainview Colony | 1,580 ft480 m |
| Average of all land | 1,580 ft480 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Edmunds County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 100 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 474 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.5816° N, 99.0065° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Snake Creek → James River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 57456
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Adrian Township1,770 ft
- Leola1,590 ft
- Plainview Colony1,580 ft
- Rosette Township1,580 ft
- Ipswich Township1,550 ft
- Ipswich1,540 ft
- Deerfield Colony1,500 ft
- Belle Township1,490 ft
- Fountain Township1,480 ft
- Long Lake Colony1,470 ft
- Pembrook Township1,460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota745th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Edmunds County24th highest of 40
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; 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 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.
- Plainview Colony 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.