Richland Township, Brule County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,770 ft 540 m1,730 ft 530 m1,710 ft 520 m1,670 ft 510 m1,630 ft 500 m1,610 ft 490 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
Richland Township, Brule County sits at about 1,710 ft (520 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,710 ft 520 m
most residents: 1,670–1,740 ft
Lowest
1,610 ft 490 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,770 ft 540 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,710 ft 520 m
all land inside township boundaries
Richland Township, Brule County spans about 160 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 | 1,710 ft520 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,770 ft540 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Average of all land | 1,710 ft520 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Richland Township, Brule County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Brule County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 54 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.6074° N, 99.0972° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Red Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bijou Hills1,820 ft
- America Township1,770 ft
- Eagle Township1,760 ft
- Ola1,750 ft
- Ola Township1,730 ft
- Platte Colony1,720 ft
- Richland Township, Brule County1,710 ft
- Smith Township1,680 ft
- Highland Township, Brule County1,670 ft
- Pleasant Grove Township1,660 ft
- Red Lake Township1,600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota574th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Brule County8th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Butte, Brule County2,040 ft
- Red Rock1,800 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,610 ft at 43.6715° N, 99.1510° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.