Riverside Colony, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,280 ft 390 m1,270 ft 385 m1,260 ft 385 m1,250 ft 380 m1,240 ft 380 m1,230 ft 375 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
Area: Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Riverside Colony sits at about 1,270 ft (385 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

1,270 ft 385 m

few residents

Lowest

1,230 ft 375 m

on the southeast side

Highest

1,280 ft 390 m

near the middle

Average

1,260 ft 385 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Riverside Colony spans about 50 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	1,270 ft385 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle	1,280 ft390 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side	1,230 ft375 m
Town center USGS map point for Riverside Colony	1,280 ft390 m
Airport (HON) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.5 mi southwest of the CDP boundary	1,289 ft393 m
Average of all land	1,260 ft385 m

Elevation profile, west to east

0.5 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Beadle County, South Dakota, United States
Population: 72 2020 Census
Land area: 0.8 sq mi
Density: 94 per sq mi
Coordinates: 44.4864° N, 98.1393° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: James River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Huron Regional (HON) 1,289 ft
ZIP codes 1: 57350

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Yale1,340 ft
Liberty Township, Beadle County1,330 ft
Cavour Township1,310 ft
Fairfield Township1,300 ft
Valley Township1,290 ft
Theresa Township1,290 ft
Iowa Township1,280 ft
Morningside1,270 ft
Riverside Colony1,270 ft
Lake Byron Township1,250 ft
Huron Colony1,250 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in South Dakota1,290th highest of 1,383
Towns in Beadle County46th highest of 48

How we measure

Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; 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 CDP boundary (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.
Riverside Colony is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.