Black Wolf Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,790 ft 545 m1,720 ft 525 m1,690 ft 515 m1,620 ft 495 m1,550 ft 475 m1,520 ft 465 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
Black Wolf Township sits at about 1,610 ft (490 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,610 ft 490 m
most residents: 1,570–1,670 ft
Lowest
1,520 ft 465 m
on the east side
Highest
1,790 ft 545 m
on the south side
Average
1,620 ft 495 m
all land inside township boundaries
Black Wolf Township 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 | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,520 ft465 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Black Wolf Township | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Airport (9K7) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.8 mi east of the township boundaries | 1,633 ft498 m |
| Average of all land | 1,620 ft495 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Ellsworth County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 83 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.4 sq mi
- Density
- 2.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7583° N, 98.3620° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Ellsworth Municipal (9K7) 1,633 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Palacky Township1,880 ft
- Lincoln Township, Ellsworth County1,760 ft
- Sherman Township, Ellsworth County1,710 ft
- Columbia Township1,700 ft
- Wilson Township1,680 ft
- Wilson1,680 ft
- Noble Township, Ellsworth County1,680 ft
- Ash Creek Township1,630 ft
- Black Wolf Township1,610 ft
- Ellsworth1,590 ft
- Ellsworth Township1,580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas678th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Ellsworth County17th highest of 24
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, 1,520 ft at 38.7338° N, 98.2662° 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.