Worthen Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,360 ft 415 m1,330 ft 405 m1,320 ft 400 m1,290 ft 395 m1,260 ft 385 m1,240 ft 380 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Worthen Township sits at about 1,330 ft (405 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,330 ft 405 m
most residents: 1,320–1,340 ft
Lowest
1,240 ft 380 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,360 ft 415 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,320 ft 405 m
all land inside township boundaries
Worthen Township spans about 120 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 | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,240 ft380 m |
| Average of all land | 1,320 ft405 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Worthen Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Hanson County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 124 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.5358° N, 97.9177° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- James 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
- Dimock1,370 ft
- Rome Township1,360 ft
- Ethan1,340 ft
- Cross Plains Township1,340 ft
- Worthen Township1,330 ft
- Old Elm Spring Colony1,310 ft
- Foster Township1,310 ft
- Beulah Township, Hanson County1,310 ft
- New Elm Spring Colony1,300 ft
- Rockport Colony1,250 ft
- Rosedale Colony1,250 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota1,122nd highest of 1,383
- Towns in Hanson County12th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Medicine Butte (historical), Hanson County1,310 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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); BTS time zones. All public domain.