Blue Rapids Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,430 ft 435 m1,340 ft 410 m1,300 ft 395 m1,210 ft 370 m1,130 ft 345 m1,080 ft 330 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
Blue Rapids Township sits at about 1,320 ft (400 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,320 ft 400 m
most residents: 1,240–1,400 ft
Lowest
1,080 ft 330 m
on the east side
Highest
1,430 ft 435 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,270 ft 390 m
all land inside township boundaries
Blue Rapids Township spans about 350 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 | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Average of all land | 1,270 ft390 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Blue Rapids Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Marshall County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 77 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6295° N, 96.6654° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cottage Hill Township1,380 ft
- Lincoln Township, Washington County1,380 ft
- Spring Creek Township, Pottawatomie County1,350 ft
- Blue Rapids Township1,320 ft
- Swede Creek Township1,290 ft
- Wells Township1,280 ft
- Bigelow Township1,250 ft
- Waterville Township1,180 ft
- Waterville1,180 ft
- Blue Rapids City Township1,160 ft
- Blue Rapids1,160 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,145th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Marshall County14th highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Mounds, Marshall County1,390 ft
- Indian Mound1,260 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).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.