White Butte Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,730 ft 830 m2,650 ft 810 m2,610 ft 795 m2,530 ft 770 m2,450 ft 745 m2,410 ft 735 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
White Butte 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
2,410 ft 735 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,730 ft 830 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,530 ft 770 m
all land inside township boundaries
White Butte Township spans about 320 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 southwest side | 2,730 ft830 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,410 ft735 m |
| Town center USGS map point for White Butte Township | 2,500 ft760 m |
| Average of all land | 2,530 ft770 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 18 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.9406° N, 102.3624° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Flat Creek → Grand 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
- Scott Township, ND2,680 ft
- Clermont Township, ND2,590 ft
- Lemmon2,570 ft
- Lincoln Township, Perkins County2,560 ft
- Liberty Township, Perkins County2,560 ft
- Trail Township2,550 ft
- Haynes, ND2,550 ft
- Gilstrap Township, ND2,520 ft
- White Butte Township2,510 ft
- Flat Creek Township2,460 ft
- Burdick Township2,440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota137th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Perkins County35th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Castle Butte2,920 ft
- White Butte, Perkins County2,910 ft
- Kid Rich Butte2,770 ft
- Wolf Butte2,750 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, 2,410 ft at 45.9065° N, 102.3290° 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. All public domain.