Sunset Colony, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,330 ft 405 m1,320 ft 405 m1,320 ft 400 m1,310 ft 400 m1,300 ft 395 m1,300 ft 395 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sunset Colony sits at about 1,310 ft (400 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,310 ft 400 m
few residents
Lowest
1,300 ft 395 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,330 ft 405 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,310 ft 400 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sunset Colony spans about 30 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 | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Airport (BTN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.4 mi east of the CDP boundary | 1,318 ft402 m |
| Average of all land | 1,310 ft400 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the middle of Sunset Colony.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Marshall County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 142 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 146 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.8095° N, 97.8852° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- James River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Britton Municipal (BTN) 1,318 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 57430
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Britton1,360 ft
- Miller Township1,330 ft
- Lowell Township1,320 ft
- Stena Township1,310 ft
- Sunset Colony1,310 ft
- Dayton Township, Marshall County1,310 ft
- Weston Township1,310 ft
- Westwood Colony1,310 ft
- Newport Colony1,300 ft
- Newark Township1,300 ft
- North Detroit Township1,290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota1,144th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Marshall County25th highest of 35
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Sunset Colony is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.