Rockham, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,410 ft 430 m1,400 ft 430 m1,400 ft 425 m1,390 ft 425 m1,380 ft 420 m1,380 ft 420 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
Town area: Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Rockham sits at about 1,390 ft (420 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside town limits (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

1,390 ft 420 m

few residents

Lowest

1,380 ft 420 m

on the northeast side

Highest

1,400 ft 425 m

near the middle

Average

1,390 ft 420 m

all land inside town limits

Rockham is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.

Figure	Elevation
Typical (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by	1,390 ft420 m
Highest point Inside town limits, near the middle	1,400 ft425 m
Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side	1,380 ft420 m
Town center USGS map point for Rockham	1,390 ft425 m
Average of all land	1,390 ft420 m

Location: Town in Faulk County, South Dakota, United States
Population: 18 2024 est.
Land area: 0.5 sq mi
Density: 36 per sq mi
Coordinates: 44.9039° N, 98.8248° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: James River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 57470

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

How we measure

Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the town limits; 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 town limits (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, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.