Richland Township, Clark County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,540 ft 470 m1,500 ft 455 m1,480 ft 450 m1,440 ft 440 m1,400 ft 425 m1,380 ft 420 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, Clark County sits at about 1,450 ft (445 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,450 ft 445 m
most residents: 1,410–1,470 ft
Lowest
1,380 ft 420 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,540 ft 470 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,460 ft 445 m
all land inside township boundaries
Richland Township, Clark 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 | 1,450 ft445 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Average of all land | 1,460 ft445 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Richland Township, Clark County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Clark County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 53 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6676° N, 97.9271° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- James 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
- Hague Township1,610 ft
- Rosedale Township, Clark County1,590 ft
- Fordham Township1,480 ft
- Fordham Colony1,470 ft
- Richland Township, Clark County1,450 ft
- Barrett Township1,420 ft
- Shamrock Colony1,410 ft
- Union Township, Spink County1,390 ft
- Capitola Township1,380 ft
- Hillside Colony1,380 ft
- Milford Township1,380 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota908th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Clark Countylowest of 40
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.