Vale Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,830 ft 865 m2,810 ft 855 m2,800 ft 855 m2,780 ft 850 m2,770 ft 845 m2,760 ft 840 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Vale Township sits at about 2,770 ft (845 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,770 ft 845 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
2,760 ft 840 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,830 ft 865 m
on the south side
Average
2,770 ft 845 m
all land inside township boundaries
Vale Township 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 | 2,770 ft845 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 2,830 ft865 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,760 ft840 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Vale Township | 2,770 ft845 m |
| Average of all land | 2,770 ft845 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Butte County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 122 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 315 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6203° N, 103.4021° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Belle Fourche River → 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
- Blucksberg Mountain3,770 ft
- Crook City3,750 ft
- Whitewood3,630 ft
- Sturgis3,510 ft
- St. Onge3,430 ft
- St. Onge Township3,430 ft
- Fruitdale2,950 ft
- Nisland2,850 ft
- Newell2,840 ft
- Vale2,770 ft
- Vale Township2,770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota83rd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Butte Countylowest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Elk Peak7,200 ft
- Green Mountain7,160 ft
- Warren Peaks6,650 ft
- Bear Butte4,427 ft
- Buzzards Peak3,020 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).
- 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.