Union Township, Butte County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,050 ft 930 m2,940 ft 895 m2,890 ft 880 m2,770 ft 845 m2,660 ft 810 m2,610 ft 795 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Union Township, Butte County sits at about 2,800 ft (855 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,800 ft 855 m
few residents
Lowest
2,610 ft 795 m
on the north side
Highest
3,050 ft 930 m
on the south side
Average
2,810 ft 855 m
all land inside township boundaries
Union Township, Butte County spans about 440 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 | 2,800 ft855 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 3,050 ft930 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 2,610 ft795 m |
| Average of all land | 2,810 ft855 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
24 mi south to north through the middle of Union Township, Butte County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Butte County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 21 2024 est.
- Land area
- 141.2 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9464° N, 103.0089° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Sulphur Creek → Cherry Creek → Cheyenne River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Upper Red Owl Township2,880 ft
- Wells Township2,850 ft
- Newell2,840 ft
- Union Township, Butte County2,800 ft
- Eagle Township, Meade County2,800 ft
- Vale2,770 ft
- Vale Township2,770 ft
- Antelope Township, Perkins County2,770 ft
- Vrooman Township2,750 ft
- Duell Township2,680 ft
- Beck-Highland Township2,650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota74th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Butte County5th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bear Butte4,427 ft
- Tomato Can Buttes3,080 ft
- Wheelbarrow Butte3,040 ft
- Saddle Butte, Meade County2,990 ft
- Table Top Butte2,980 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; 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 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, 2,610 ft at 45.0665° N, 102.9601° 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.