12, KS Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,980 ft 605 m1,920 ft 585 m1,880 ft 575 m1,810 ft 555 m1,740 ft 530 m1,710 ft 520 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
Wnship 12 area: Fades everything outside the official wnship 12 boundaries (US Census).

Elevation Data

12 sits at about 1,910 ft (580 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,910 ft 580 m

most residents: 1,840–1,930 ft

Lowest

1,710 ft 520 m

on the east side

Highest

1,980 ft 605 m

on the southwest side

Average

1,860 ft 565 m

all land inside wnship 12 boundaries

12 spans about 270 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	1,910 ft580 m
Highest point Inside wnship 12 boundaries, on the southwest side	1,980 ft605 m
Lowest point Inside wnship 12 boundaries, on the east side	1,710 ft520 m
Airport (PTT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.9 mi north of the wnship 12 boundaries	1,953 ft595 m
Average of all land	1,860 ft565 m

Elevation profile, west to east

18 mi west to east through the middle of 12.

Topographic Map

Location: Wnship 12 in Pratt County, Kansas, United States
Population: 902 2024 est.
Land area: 123.6 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
Density: 7.3 per sq mi
Coordinates: 37.6341° N, 98.7254° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Great Plains
Drains to: South Fork Ninnescah River → Ninnescah River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Pratt Regional (PTT) 1,953 ft

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Cullison2,040 ft
9, Pratt County2,040 ft
10, Pratt County1,980 ft
Coats1,970 ft
Iuka1,950 ft
71,950 ft
Sawyer1,910 ft
121,910 ft
11, Pratt County1,890 ft
Pratt1,890 ft
61,840 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Kansas450th highest of 1,996
Towns in Pratt County10th highest of 14

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Pilot Knob, Pratt County2,060 ft
Pilot Knob, Stafford County1,880 ft
Gypsum Hills1,860 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the wnship 12 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 wnship 12 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, 1,710 ft at 37.6443° N, 98.4718° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.