Elevation of Rapid City, South Dakota, United States of America
Rapid City, South Dakota, United States of America is 993 m (3,258 ft) above sea level.
Rapid City's height from sea level is 993 metres, or 3,258 feet. GeoNames reads 990 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 985 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 1,027 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 204 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Rapid City
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rapid City; the vertical scale is the same on both.
Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.
Peaks and passes near Rapid City
- Scruton Mountain, peak at 1,796 m (5,892 ft), 24 km to the W — 803 m above the town.
- Buck Mountain, peak at 1,687 m (5,535 ft), 23 km to the W — 694 m above the town.
- Silver Mountain, peak at 1,648 m (5,407 ft), 20.5 km to the SW — 655 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Rapid City is
Latitude 44.0805434, longitude -103.2310149. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.
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About this reading
The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Rapid City's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 990 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.