Rauville Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,020 ft 615 m1,940 ft 595 m1,910 ft 580 m1,830 ft 560 m1,760 ft 535 m1,720 ft 525 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
Rauville Township sits at about 1,780 ft (545 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,780 ft 545 m
most residents: 1,740–1,850 ft
Lowest
1,720 ft 525 m
on the west side
Highest
2,020 ft 615 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,810 ft 555 m
all land inside township boundaries
Rauville Township spans about 300 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 | 1,780 ft545 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,020 ft615 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,720 ft525 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rauville Township | 1,750 ft535 m |
| Airport (ATY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,749 ft533 m |
| Average of all land | 1,810 ft555 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Codington County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 289 2024 est.
- Land area
- 50.3 sq mi
- Density
- 5.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9797° N, 97.1059° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Sioux River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Watertown Regional (ATY) 1,749 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Waverly1,980 ft
- Waverly Township1,970 ft
- Germantown Township, Codington County1,830 ft
- Rauville Township1,780 ft
- Elmira Township1,780 ft
- Fuller Township1,770 ft
- Richland Township, Codington County1,760 ft
- Lake Township1,750 ft
- Pelican Township1,740 ft
- Watertown1,740 ft
- Sheridan Township1,740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota458th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Codington County10th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Punished Womans Mound2,080 ft
- Buffalo Hill2,010 ft
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.