Running Water, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,440 ft 440 m1,380 ft 420 m1,350 ft 415 m1,300 ft 395 m1,240 ft 380 m1,210 ft 370 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Running Water sits at about 1,360 ft (415 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,360 ft 415 m
few residents
Lowest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the east side
Highest
1,440 ft 440 m
on the north side
Average
1,350 ft 410 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Running Water spans about 230 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 | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Running Water | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Airport (Y03) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.1 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 1,324 ft404 m |
| Average of all land | 1,350 ft410 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 47 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 22 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7700° N, 97.9840° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Springfield Municipal (Y03) 1,324 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 57062
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sparta Township, NE1,570 ft
- Union Township, Knox County, NE1,550 ft
- Spade Township, NE1,490 ft
- Raymond Township, NE1,430 ft
- Running Water1,360 ft
- Springfield1,320 ft
- Verdel, NE1,290 ft
- Niobrara Township, NE1,280 ft
- Niobrara, NE1,280 ft
- Hill Township, NE1,260 ft
- Santee, NE1,240 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota1,055th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Bon Homme County3rd highest of 7
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.
- Running Water 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.