Spink County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,480 ft 450 m1,420 ft 430 m1,390 ft 425 m1,330 ft 405 m1,270 ft 385 m1,240 ft 380 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Spink County averages about 1,320 ft (400 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,240 ft on the south side to 1,480 ft on Bald Mountain.

Average elevation

1,320 ft 400 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,480 ft 450 m

on Bald Mountain

Lowest

1,240 ft 380 m

on the south side

Spink County spans about 240 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	1,320 ft400 m
Highest point Inside the county, on Bald Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height)	1,480 ft450 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side	1,240 ft380 m

Elevation profile, west to east

36 mi west to east through Redfield.

Topographic Map

Location: County in South Dakota, United States
Population: 6,108 2024 est.
Land area: 1,503.5 sq mi + 6.2 sq mi water
Density: 4.1 per sq mi
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Day County1,740 ft
Clark County1,720 ft
Hand County1,660 ft
Faulk County1,630 ft
Beadle County1,340 ft
Brown County1,340 ft
Spink County1,320 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in South Dakota63rd highest of 66
Counties in the United States990th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Bald Mountain, Spink County1,480 ft
Redfield Hills1,370 ft

All 53 towns in Spink County by typical elevation

Clark Colony1,420 ft
Union Township, Spink County1,390 ft
Richfield Township1,380 ft
Capitola Township1,380 ft
Hillside Colony1,380 ft
Spring Township1,380 ft
Turton Township1,370 ft
Olean Township1,360 ft
Doland1,360 ft
Conde Township1,360 ft
Buffalo Township, Spink County1,340 ft
Lake Township, Spink County1,340 ft
Exline Township1,330 ft
Turton1,330 ft
Belmont Township, Spink County1,330 ft
Garfield Township, Spink County1,330 ft
Groveland Township1,330 ft
Tulare1,320 ft
Conde1,310 ft
Tulare Township1,310 ft
Antelope Township1,310 ft
Harrison Township1,310 ft
Redfield Township1,310 ft
Redfield1,300 ft
Benton Township, Spink County1,300 ft
Beotia Township1,300 ft
Brentford1,300 ft
Sumner Township1,300 ft
Athol Township1,300 ft
La Prairie Township1,300 ft
Three Rivers Township1,300 ft
Belle Plaine Township1,300 ft
Tetonka Township1,300 ft
Mellette1,300 ft
Northville1,300 ft
Frankfort1,300 ft
Clifton Township, Spink County1,300 ft
Northville Township1,300 ft
Great Bend Township1,300 ft
Harmony Township, Spink County1,300 ft
Lodi Township1,290 ft
Mansfield partly1,290 ft
Lincoln Township, Spink County1,290 ft
Mellette Township1,290 ft
Camrose Colony1,290 ft
Prairie Center Township, Spink County1,290 ft
Frankfort Township1,290 ft
Ashton1,290 ft
Cornwall Township1,290 ft
Crandon Township1,290 ft
Glendale Colony1,280 ft
Jefferson Township, Spink County1,280 ft
Spink Colony1,280 ft

How we measure

Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.