Scotch Cap Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,940 ft 895 m2,860 ft 870 m2,820 ft 860 m2,750 ft 840 m2,680 ft 815 m2,640 ft 805 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
Scotch Cap Township sits at about 2,790 ft (850 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,790 ft 850 m
few residents
Lowest
2,640 ft 805 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,940 ft 895 m
on Wolf Hill
Average
2,790 ft 850 m
all land inside township boundaries
Scotch Cap Township spans about 300 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 | 2,790 ft850 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Wolf Hill | 2,940 ft895 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,640 ft805 m |
| Airport (6V5) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi east of the township boundaries | 2,791 ft851 m |
| Average of all land | 2,790 ft850 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Scotch Cap Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 18 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.4 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.5448° N, 102.6139° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- South Fork Grand River → Grand River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Bison Municipal (6V5) 2,791 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Strool-Plateau Township2,860 ft
- Prairie City2,860 ft
- Vail Township2,810 ft
- Scotch Cap Township2,790 ft
- Bison2,780 ft
- Bison Township2,760 ft
- Rainbow Township2,710 ft
- Maltby Township2,710 ft
- Cash Township2,650 ft
- Fredlund Township2,640 ft
- Marshfield Township2,490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota76th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Perkins County6th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rocky Hills2,980 ft
- Wolf Hill, Perkins County2,940 ft
- Square Top Butte, Perkins County2,850 ft
- Scotch Cap Butte2,840 ft
- Lotties Butte2,800 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; 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 township boundaries (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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.