Rolland Colony, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,770 ft 540 m1,760 ft 535 m1,750 ft 535 m1,740 ft 530 m1,730 ft 530 m1,730 ft 525 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Rolland Colony sits at about 1,750 ft (535 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,750 ft 535 m
few residents
Lowest
1,730 ft 525 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,770 ft 540 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,750 ft 535 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rolland Colony spans about 40 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 | 1,750 ft535 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,770 ft540 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,730 ft525 m |
| Average of all land | 1,750 ft535 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Brookings County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 53 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 217 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.3437° N, 96.5923° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Sioux River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 57276
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sherman Township1,930 ft
- Norfeld Colony1,930 ft
- Richland Township1,840 ft
- White1,790 ft
- Rolland Colony1,750 ft
- Alton Township1,720 ft
- Afton Township1,710 ft
- Newdale Colony1,700 ft
- Bushnell1,690 ft
- Aurora Township1,640 ft
- Aurora1,630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota519th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Brookings County12th highest of 34
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.
- Rolland 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.