Wells Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,090 ft 940 m3,000 ft 915 m2,960 ft 900 m2,870 ft 875 m2,790 ft 850 m2,740 ft 835 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
Wells Township sits at about 2,850 ft (870 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,850 ft 870 m
few residents
Lowest
2,740 ft 835 m
on the east side
Highest
3,090 ft 940 m
on the northeast side
Average
2,860 ft 875 m
all land inside township boundaries
Wells Township spans about 350 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 | 2,850 ft870 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 3,090 ft940 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 2,740 ft835 m |
| Average of all land | 2,860 ft875 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Wells Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 22 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.9 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.3151° N, 102.9330° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Antelope Creek → Rabbit Creek → Moreau 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
- Wells Township2,850 ft
- Vail Township2,810 ft
- Eagle Township, Meade County2,800 ft
- Antelope Township, Perkins County2,770 ft
- Vrooman Township2,750 ft
- Maltby Township2,710 ft
- Duell Township2,680 ft
- Beck-Highland Township2,650 ft
- Hall Township2,560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota64th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Perkins County3rd highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bear Butte4,427 ft
- Sheep Mountain, Harding County3,360 ft
- Flat Top Butte, Harding County3,350 ft
- Haystack Butte, Perkins County3,010 ft
- Chimney Butte, Perkins County2,900 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, 2,740 ft at 45.3179° N, 102.8376° 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.