Rainbow Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,800 ft 855 m2,730 ft 835 m2,700 ft 825 m2,630 ft 800 m2,560 ft 780 m2,520 ft 770 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
Rainbow Township sits at about 2,710 ft (825 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,710 ft 825 m
few residents
Lowest
2,520 ft 770 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,800 ft 855 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,710 ft 825 m
all land inside township boundaries
Rainbow Township spans about 280 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 | 2,710 ft825 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 2,800 ft855 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,520 ft770 m |
| Airport (6V5) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.5 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 2,791 ft851 m |
| Average of all land | 2,710 ft825 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Rainbow Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 24 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.4 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.5436° N, 102.4307° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- South Fork Grand River → Grand River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Bison Municipal (6V5) 2,791 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Scotch Cap Township2,790 ft
- Bison2,780 ft
- Bison Township2,760 ft
- Rainbow Township2,710 ft
- Meadow Township2,660 ft
- Cash Township2,650 ft
- Lone Tree Township, Perkins County2,650 ft
- Chance Township2,600 ft
- Clark Township, Perkins County2,530 ft
- Rockford Township2,520 ft
- Marshfield Township2,490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota92nd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Perkins County13th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Square Top Butte, Perkins County2,850 ft
- Scotch Cap Butte2,840 ft
- Flat Top Butte, Perkins County2,770 ft
- Tailor Butte2,700 ft
- Two Buttes2,590 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.