Bear Creek Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,690 ft 1,125 m3,590 ft 1,095 m3,540 ft 1,080 m3,430 ft 1,045 m3,330 ft 1,015 m3,280 ft 1,000 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
Bear Creek Township sits at about 3,500 ft (1,070 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,500 ft 1,070 m
most residents: 3,410–3,530 ft
Lowest
3,280 ft 1,000 m
on the southeast side
Highest
3,690 ft 1,125 m
on the north side
Average
3,490 ft 1,060 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bear Creek Township spans about 410 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 | 3,500 ft1,070 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 3,690 ft1,125 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 3,280 ft1,000 m |
| Average of all land | 3,490 ft1,060 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the middle of Bear Creek Township.
Altitude Effects
What 3,500 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.5 °F96.4 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.3 inHg (89.1 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.4% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Hamilton County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 56 2024 est.
- Land area
- 174.2 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.8117° N, 101.9431° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Bear Creek → Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hartman, CO3,600 ft
- Bear Creek Township3,500 ft
- Manter3,490 ft
- Granada, CO3,480 ft
- Holly, CO3,400 ft
- Coolidge3,360 ft
- Coolidge Township3,360 ft
- Johnson City3,340 ft
- Syracuse3,240 ft
- Big Bow3,170 ft
- Kendall Township, Hamilton County3,160 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas18th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Hamilton Countyhighest of 5
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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.