Split Rock Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,530 ft 465 m1,460 ft 445 m1,430 ft 435 m1,370 ft 415 m1,300 ft 395 m1,270 ft 385 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
Split Rock Township sits at about 1,420 ft (435 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,420 ft 435 m
most residents: 1,330–1,470 ft
Lowest
1,270 ft 385 m
on the south side
Highest
1,530 ft 465 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,380 ft 420 m
all land inside township boundaries
Split Rock Township spans about 260 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 | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Airport (FSD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,430 ft436 m |
| Average of all land | 1,380 ft420 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Split Rock Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 3,074 2024 est.
- Land area
- 28.4 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 108 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.5470° N, 96.6135° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Sioux River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Joe Foss Field (FSD) 1,430 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Meadow View Addition1,490 ft
- Sioux Falls1,480 ft
- Anderson1,470 ft
- Brandon Township1,440 ft
- Valley Springs Township1,420 ft
- Split Rock Township1,420 ft
- Rowena1,400 ft
- Pine Lakes Addition1,400 ft
- Springdale Township1,390 ft
- Shindler1,370 ft
- Brandon1,350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota952nd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Minnehaha County36th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Canton Mounds1,450 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).
- 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, 1,190 ft at 43.5174° N, 96.5826° 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.