Bethany Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,760 ft 535 m1,690 ft 515 m1,650 ft 505 m1,580 ft 480 m1,510 ft 460 m1,470 ft 450 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
Bethany Township sits at about 1,540 ft (470 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,540 ft 470 m
most residents: 1,510–1,680 ft
Lowest
1,470 ft 450 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,760 ft 535 m
on the south side
Average
1,570 ft 480 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bethany Township spans about 290 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 | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,760 ft535 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,470 ft450 m |
| Airport (K75) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.3 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,547 ft472 m |
| Average of all land | 1,570 ft480 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Bethany Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Osborne County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 144 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.1 sq mi
- Density
- 4.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5429° N, 98.6721° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Solomon River → Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Osborne Municipal (K75) 1,547 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hawkeye Township1,770 ft
- Garfield Township, Smith County1,700 ft
- Lawrence Township, Osborne County1,700 ft
- Lincoln Township, Smith County1,640 ft
- Harlan Township1,590 ft
- Osborne1,550 ft
- Penn Township1,540 ft
- Portis1,540 ft
- Bethany Township1,540 ft
- Ross Township1,480 ft
- Downs1,480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas749th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Osborne County25th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sunny Slope Mound1,910 ft
- South Hill1,800 ft
- North Hill1,780 ft
- Medicine Peak1,760 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).
- 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, 1,470 ft at 39.5182° N, 98.6043° 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.