Viola Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,850 ft 565 m1,730 ft 525 m1,670 ft 510 m1,540 ft 470 m1,420 ft 435 m1,360 ft 415 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
Township area: Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).

Elevation Data

Viola Township sits at about 1,480 ft (450 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

1,480 ft 450 m

few residents

Lowest

1,360 ft 415 m

on the southeast side

Highest

1,850 ft 565 m

on the northwest side

Average

1,490 ft 455 m

all land inside township boundaries

Viola Township spans about 490 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	1,480 ft450 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side	1,850 ft565 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side	1,360 ft415 m
Airport (4X4) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi north of the township boundaries	1,545 ft471 m
Average of all land	1,490 ft455 m

Elevation profile, west to east

5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Viola Township.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Jerauld County, South Dakota, United States
Population: 30 2024 est.
Land area: 35.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
Density: 0.8 per sq mi
Coordinates: 43.9730° N, 98.5018° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Firesteel Creek → James River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Wessington Springs (4X4) 1,545 ft

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Anina Township1,810 ft
Wessington Springs1,640 ft
Pleasant Valley Township, Aurora County1,620 ft
Wessington Springs Township1,510 ft
Viola Township1,480 ft
Bristol Township, Aurora County1,480 ft
Lane1,380 ft
Storla1,360 ft
Belford Township1,360 ft
Franklin Township, Jerauld County1,350 ft
Blaine Township1,330 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in South Dakota866th highest of 1,383
Towns in Jerauld County12th highest of 17

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Wessington Hills1,930 ft
Archer Hill1,690 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, 1,360 ft at 43.9393° N, 98.4671° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.