Blue Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,390 ft 425 m1,290 ft 390 m1,240 ft 375 m1,130 ft 345 m1,030 ft 315 m980 ft 300 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
Blue Township sits at about 1,060 ft (325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,060 ft 325 m
most residents: 1,020–1,140 ft
Lowest
980 ft 300 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,390 ft 425 m
on the north side
Average
1,160 ft 355 m
all land inside township boundaries
Blue 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 | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 980 ft300 m |
| Airport (MHK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.8 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,066 ft325 m |
| Average of all land | 1,160 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.4 mi south to north through the middle of Blue Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Pottawatomie County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 5,366 2024 est.
- Land area
- 43.3 sq mi + 5.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 124 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2147° N, 96.5090° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Manhattan Regional (MHK) 1,066 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pottawatomie Township1,200 ft
- Grant Township, Riley County1,190 ft
- Wabaunsee Township1,150 ft
- St. George Township1,120 ft
- Zeandale Township1,080 ft
- Manhattan1,080 ft
- Ashland Township1,070 ft
- Blue Township1,060 ft
- St. George1,060 ft
- Manhattan Township1,040 ft
- Zeandale1,010 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,562nd highest of 1,996
- Towns in Pottawatomie County23rd highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tabor Hill1,320 ft
- Stagg Hill1,240 ft
- Prospect Hill1,200 ft
- Rock Hill, Riley County1,190 ft
- Longview Hill1,190 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.