Rainy Creek/Cheyenne Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,930 ft 895 m2,680 ft 820 m2,560 ft 780 m2,320 ft 705 m2,070 ft 630 m1,950 ft 595 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Rainy Creek/Cheyenne Township sits at about 2,480 ft (755 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,480 ft 755 m
few residents
Lowest
1,950 ft 595 m
on the north side
Highest
2,930 ft 895 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,440 ft 745 m
all land inside township boundaries
Rainy Creek/Cheyenne Township spans about 980 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 | 2,480 ft755 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 2,930 ft895 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,950 ft595 m |
| Average of all land | 2,440 ft745 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the middle of Rainy Creek/Cheyenne Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 19 2024 est.
- Land area
- 91.3 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.3496° N, 102.1644° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Cheyenne 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
- Huron Township2,870 ft
- Cedar Butte Township2,710 ft
- Ash Township, Pennington County2,680 ft
- Peno Township2,680 ft
- Lake Creek Township2,650 ft
- Elm Springs Township2,550 ft
- Sunnyside Township2,510 ft
- Rainy Creek/Cheyenne Township2,480 ft
- Smithville Township2,460 ft
- Dakota Township2,430 ft
- Bridger1,870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota141st highest of 1,383
- Towns in Pennington County32nd highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bear Butte4,427 ft
- Horse Tooth2,891 ft
- Stony Buttes2,770 ft
- Marvin Butte2,620 ft
- Poverty Point2,447 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.