Witten Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,170 ft 660 m2,090 ft 640 m2,060 ft 625 m1,980 ft 605 m1,910 ft 580 m1,870 ft 570 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
Witten Township sits at about 1,960 ft (600 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,960 ft 600 m
few residents
Lowest
1,870 ft 570 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,170 ft 660 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,970 ft 600 m
all land inside township boundaries
Witten Township spans about 300 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 | 1,960 ft600 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 2,170 ft660 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Average of all land | 1,970 ft600 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Witten Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Tripp County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 35 2024 est.
- Land area
- 28.3 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.4630° N, 100.0518° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- White 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
- Rosedale Township, Tripp County2,340 ft
- Carter Township2,200 ft
- Jordan Township2,080 ft
- Black Township2,040 ft
- New Witten1,980 ft
- Witten Township1,960 ft
- Curlew Township1,930 ft
- Banner Township, Tripp County1,910 ft
- Lone Tree Township, Tripp County1,890 ft
- Ideal1,890 ft
- Ideal Township1,890 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota268th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Tripp County33rd highest of 48
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rattlesnake Butte, Mellette County2,520 ft
- Dog Ear Buttes2,440 ft
- Bradleyon Butte2,330 ft
- Miller Hill2,300 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, 1,860 ft at 43.4982° N, 100.1024° 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.