Vail Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,030 ft 925 m2,900 ft 885 m2,840 ft 865 m2,720 ft 830 m2,600 ft 790 m2,530 ft 770 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
Vail Township sits at about 2,810 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)
2,810 ft 855 m
few residents
Lowest
2,530 ft 770 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,030 ft 925 m
on the south side
Average
2,800 ft 855 m
all land inside township boundaries
Vail Township spans about 500 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 | 2,810 ft855 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 3,030 ft925 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,530 ft770 m |
| Average of all land | 2,800 ft855 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Vail Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 13 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.5993° N, 102.8054° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- South Fork Grand River → Grand 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
- Strool-Plateau Township2,860 ft
- Prairie City2,860 ft
- Vail Township2,810 ft
- Wilson Township, Perkins County2,810 ft
- Scotch Cap Township2,790 ft
- Bison Township2,760 ft
- Maltby Township2,710 ft
- Cash Township2,650 ft
- Glendo Township2,650 ft
- Fredlund Township2,640 ft
- Sidney Township2,630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota70th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Perkins County4th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- White Hill3,140 ft
- Rocky Hills2,980 ft
- Wolf Hill, Perkins County2,940 ft
- Scotch Cap Butte2,840 ft
- Grandmas Butte2,750 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).
- 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. All public domain.