White Lake, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,660 ft 505 m1,650 ft 505 m1,650 ft 500 m1,640 ft 500 m1,630 ft 495 m1,630 ft 495 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
White Lake 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: 1,640–1,650 ft
Lowest
1,630 ft 495 m
on the south side
Highest
1,660 ft 505 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,640 ft 500 m
all land inside city limits
White Lake spans about 30 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 northeast side | 1,660 ft505 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Town center USGS map point for White Lake | 1,650 ft505 m |
| Average of all land | 1,640 ft500 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Aurora County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 396 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 978 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.7303° N, 98.7137° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Platte Creek → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 57383
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Willow Lake Township1,770 ft
- Plainfield Township1,650 ft
- White Lake1,640 ft
- Gales Township1,640 ft
- Grass Ranch Colony1,640 ft
- White Lake Township1,630 ft
- Lake Township, Aurora County1,620 ft
- Wilbur Township1,620 ft
- Crystal Lake Township1,620 ft
- Eureka Township, Aurora County1,620 ft
- Cooper Township1,590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota654th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Aurora County5th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Archer Hill1,690 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).
- 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, 1,630 ft at 43.7240° N, 98.7151° 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, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.