Rusk Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,900 ft 580 m1,870 ft 570 m1,850 ft 565 m1,820 ft 555 m1,790 ft 545 m1,780 ft 540 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
Rusk Township sits at about 1,820 ft (555 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,820 ft 555 m
most residents: 1,790–1,840 ft
Lowest
1,780 ft 540 m
on the west side
Highest
1,900 ft 580 m
on the north side
Average
1,820 ft 555 m
all land inside township boundaries
Rusk Township spans about 120 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 | 1,820 ft555 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,900 ft580 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,780 ft540 m |
| Airport (1D7) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,858 ft566 m |
| Average of all land | 1,820 ft555 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Rusk Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Day County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 125 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.2 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.2824° N, 97.5708° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Buchner Slough basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- The Sigurd Anderson (1D7) 1,858 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Highland Township, Day County1,860 ft
- Webster1,850 ft
- Webster Township1,830 ft
- Rusk Township1,820 ft
- York Township1,820 ft
- Wheatland Township1,820 ft
- Morton Township1,820 ft
- Butler1,820 ft
- Racine Township1,810 ft
- Butler Township, Day County1,800 ft
- Kidder Township1,800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota393rd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Day County12th highest of 37
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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,780 ft at 45.2796° N, 97.6018° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.