Wessington Springs, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,900 ft 580 m1,820 ft 555 m1,770 ft 540 m1,690 ft 515 m1,610 ft 490 m1,560 ft 475 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Wessington Springs sits at about 1,640 ft (500 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,640 ft 500 m
most residents: 1,610–1,750 ft
Lowest
1,560 ft 475 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,900 ft 580 m
on the west side
Average
1,700 ft 520 m
all land inside city limits
Wessington Springs spans about 340 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 | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,900 ft580 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wessington Springs | 1,680 ft510 m |
| Airport (4X4) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.4 mi southeast of the city limits | 1,545 ft471 m |
| Average of all land | 1,700 ft520 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jerauld County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 773 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 429 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0792° N, 98.5695° 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
- ZIP codes 1
- 57382
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pleasant Township, Jerauld County1,820 ft
- Anina Township1,810 ft
- Chery Township1,740 ft
- Wessington Springs1,640 ft
- Wessington Springs Township1,510 ft
- Viola Township1,480 ft
- Burr Oak Township1,480 ft
- Lane1,380 ft
- Kellogg Township1,370 ft
- Alpena Township1,350 ft
- Franklin Township, Jerauld County1,350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota649th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Jerauld County10th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wessington Hills1,930 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.