Browns Creek Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,670 ft 510 m1,630 ft 495 m1,600 ft 490 m1,560 ft 475 m1,510 ft 460 m1,490 ft 455 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
Browns Creek 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: 1,520–1,590 ft
Lowest
1,490 ft 455 m
on the south side
Highest
1,670 ft 510 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,570 ft 480 m
all land inside township boundaries
Browns Creek Township spans about 180 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 northwest side | 1,670 ft510 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Average of all land | 1,570 ft480 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Browns Creek Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jewell County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 45 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5963° N, 98.2040° 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
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Calvin Township1,690 ft
- Ionia Township1,600 ft
- Buffalo Township1,560 ft
- Jewell1,560 ft
- Browns Creek Township1,540 ft
- Athens Township1,510 ft
- Plum Creek Township1,470 ft
- Solomon Rapids Township1,470 ft
- Prairie Township1,460 ft
- Glen Elder Township1,420 ft
- Glen Elder1,420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas743rd highest of 1,996
- Towns in Jewell County25th highest of 33
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.