St. Francis, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,000 ft 915 m2,980 ft 910 m2,980 ft 905 m2,960 ft 900 m2,940 ft 895 m2,930 ft 895 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
St. Francis sits at about 2,980 ft (910 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,980 ft 910 m
most residents: 2,960–3,000 ft
Lowest
2,930 ft 895 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,000 ft 915 m
on the southeast side
Average
2,980 ft 910 m
all land inside town limits
St. Francis spans about 70 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 | 2,980 ft910 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 3,000 ft915 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 2,930 ft895 m |
| Town center USGS map point for St. Francis | 2,990 ft910 m |
| Airport (SUO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi north of the town limits | 2,724 ft830 m |
| Average of all land | 2,980 ft910 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Todd County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 468 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 1,293 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.1444° N, 100.9051° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Little White River → White River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Rosebud Sioux Tribal (SUO) 2,724 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 57572
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Nenzel, NE3,110 ft
- St. Francis2,980 ft
- Kilgore, NE2,920 ft
- Two Strike2,830 ft
- Spring Creek2,780 ft
- Rosebud2,720 ft
- Crookston, NE2,710 ft
- Parmelee2,650 ft
- Mission2,580 ft
- Antelope2,560 ft
- Soldier Creek2,430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota53rd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Todd Countyhighest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Grass Mountain3,030 ft
- Sugar Loaf Butte2,810 ft
- Rosebud Butte2,800 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, 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 town limits (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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.