Buffalo Township, Barton County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,960 ft 600 m1,940 ft 590 m1,920 ft 585 m1,900 ft 580 m1,870 ft 570 m1,860 ft 565 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
Buffalo Township, Barton County sits at about 1,890 ft (575 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,890 ft 575 m
most residents: 1,870–1,920 ft
Lowest
1,860 ft 565 m
on the east side
Highest
1,960 ft 600 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,890 ft 575 m
all land inside township boundaries
Buffalo Township, Barton County spans about 100 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 | 1,890 ft575 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,960 ft600 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,860 ft565 m |
| Airport (GBD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.6 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,887 ft575 m |
| Average of all land | 1,890 ft575 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.5 mi west to east through the middle of Buffalo Township, Barton County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Barton County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 423 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 12 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3689° N, 98.8575° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Great Bend Municipal (GBD) 1,887 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pawnee Rock Township1,950 ft
- Pawnee Rock1,950 ft
- Clarence Township1,940 ft
- Albert1,920 ft
- Eureka Township, Barton County1,910 ft
- Liberty Township, Barton County1,890 ft
- Buffalo Township, Barton County1,890 ft
- South Bend Township1,860 ft
- Great Bend Township1,860 ft
- Great Bend1,850 ft
- South Homestead Township1,840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas464th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Barton County18th 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).
- 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, 1,860 ft at 38.4099° N, 98.8310° 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.