Whitehorse, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,930 ft 585 m1,860 ft 570 m1,830 ft 560 m1,770 ft 540 m1,710 ft 520 m1,680 ft 510 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Whitehorse sits at about 1,710 ft (525 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,710 ft 525 m
few residents
Lowest
1,680 ft 510 m
on the south side
Highest
1,930 ft 585 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,740 ft 530 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Whitehorse spans about 250 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 | 1,710 ft525 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,930 ft585 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 1,680 ft510 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Whitehorse | 1,720 ft525 m |
| Average of all land | 1,740 ft530 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Dewey County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 106 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.7 sq mi
- Density
- 39 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.2705° N, 100.8865° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Moreau River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 57661
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Eagle Butte2,430 ft
- North Eagle Butte2,410 ft
- Isabel2,390 ft
- Timber Lake2,170 ft
- La Plant2,020 ft
- Green Grass1,920 ft
- Ridgeland Township1,860 ft
- Swift Bird1,840 ft
- Whitehorse1,710 ft
- Mobridge1,670 ft
- Little Eagle1,660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota563rd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Dewey Countylowest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Buttes, Dewey County2,330 ft
- Dog Butte2,250 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Whitehorse is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.