Vilas, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,510 ft 460 m1,490 ft 455 m1,480 ft 450 m1,470 ft 445 m1,450 ft 440 m1,440 ft 440 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Vilas sits at about 1,470 ft (450 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside town limits (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

1,470 ft 450 m

few residents

Lowest

1,440 ft 440 m

on the south side

Highest

1,510 ft 460 m

on the northeast side

Average

1,470 ft 450 m

all land inside town limits

Vilas 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by	1,470 ft450 m
Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side	1,510 ft460 m
Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side	1,440 ft440 m
Town center USGS map point for Vilas	1,480 ft450 m
Average of all land	1,470 ft450 m

Elevation profile, west to east

1.5 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Miner County, South Dakota, United States
Population: 24 2024 est.
Land area: 3.0 sq mi
Density: 8.1 per sq mi
Coordinates: 44.0105° N, 97.5973° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: James River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 57349

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in South Dakota880th highest of 1,383
Towns in Miner County12th highest of 24

How we measure

Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the town limits; 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 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.