Ramsey Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,870 ft 570 m1,780 ft 540 m1,730 ft 530 m1,640 ft 500 m1,550 ft 475 m1,510 ft 460 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
Ramsey Township sits at about 1,740 ft (530 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,740 ft 530 m
most residents: 1,560–1,790 ft
Lowest
1,510 ft 460 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,870 ft 570 m
near the middle
Average
1,680 ft 515 m
all land inside township boundaries
Ramsey Township spans about 360 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 Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,740 ft530 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Average of all land | 1,680 ft515 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Ramsey Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in McCook County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 100 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.1 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.7965° N, 97.1740° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- East Fork Vermillion River → Vermillion 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
- Orland Township1,780 ft
- Ramsey Township1,740 ft
- Rustic Acres Colony1,740 ft
- Orland Colony1,730 ft
- Franklin Township1,730 ft
- Clear Lake Township, Minnehaha County1,690 ft
- Buffalo Township1,690 ft
- Brookfield Township1,600 ft
- Richland Township, McCook County1,560 ft
- Montrose Township1,550 ft
- Montrose1,490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota523rd highest of 1,383
- Towns in McCook Countyhighest of 23
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- 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.