Wasta Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,810 ft 855 m2,670 ft 815 m2,600 ft 795 m2,470 ft 750 m2,330 ft 710 m2,260 ft 690 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
Wasta Township sits at about 2,510 ft (765 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,510 ft 765 m
few residents
Lowest
2,260 ft 690 m
on the east side
Highest
2,810 ft 855 m
on the southeast side
Average
2,520 ft 770 m
all land inside township boundaries
Wasta Township spans about 550 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 | 2,510 ft765 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,810 ft855 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 2,260 ft690 m |
| Average of all land | 2,520 ft770 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Wasta Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 33 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi
- Density
- 0.9 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0686° N, 102.4739° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- 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
- Wall2,830 ft
- Crooked Creek Township2,810 ft
- Fairview Township, Pennington County2,810 ft
- Lake Flat Township2,770 ft
- Lakeside Township2,740 ft
- Cedar Butte Township2,710 ft
- Owanka Township2,710 ft
- Shyne Township2,520 ft
- Wasta Township2,510 ft
- Smithville Township2,460 ft
- Wasta2,320 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota135th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Pennington County30th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Elk Peak7,200 ft
- Bear Butte4,427 ft
- Cedar Butte, Pennington County2,890 ft
- Quinn Table2,870 ft
- White Butte, Pennington County2,780 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.