Smith Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,740 ft 530 m1,700 ft 520 m1,680 ft 515 m1,650 ft 500 m1,610 ft 490 m1,590 ft 485 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
Smith Township sits at about 1,680 ft (510 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,680 ft 510 m
most residents: 1,660–1,700 ft
Lowest
1,590 ft 485 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,740 ft 530 m
near the middle
Average
1,680 ft 510 m
all land inside township boundaries
Smith Township spans about 150 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 | 1,680 ft510 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 1,740 ft530 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Average of all land | 1,680 ft510 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Smith Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Brule County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 47 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.7224° N, 99.0669° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kimball1,780 ft
- Richland Township, Brule County1,710 ft
- Waldro Township1,700 ft
- Kimball Township1,700 ft
- Smith Township1,680 ft
- Highland Township, Brule County1,670 ft
- Plainfield Township1,650 ft
- Pukwana Township1,640 ft
- Cleveland Township, Brule County1,630 ft
- Red Lake Township1,600 ft
- Pukwana1,560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota613th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Brule County13th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Butte, Brule County2,040 ft
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).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.