Center Township, Atchison County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 355 m1,120 ft 340 m1,090 ft 330 m1,030 ft 315 m980 ft 300 m950 ft 290 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
Center Township, Atchison County 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: 990–1,130 ft
Lowest
950 ft 290 m
on the east side
Highest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,070 ft 325 m
all land inside township boundaries
Center Township, Atchison County spans about 220 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 southwest side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 950 ft290 m |
| Airport (K59) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.3 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 1,073 ft327 m |
| Average of all land | 1,070 ft325 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Center Township, Atchison County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Atchison County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 622 2024 est.
- Land area
- 53.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 12 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4809° N, 95.2816° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Stranger Creek → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Amelia Earhart (K59) 1,073 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lancaster1,150 ft
- Nortonville1,140 ft
- Norton Township1,140 ft
- Lancaster Township1,130 ft
- Effingham1,120 ft
- Benton Township, Atchison County1,110 ft
- Center Township, Atchison County1,060 ft
- Mount Pleasant Township, Atchison County1,030 ft
- Shannon Township990 ft
- Walnut Township, Atchison County960 ft
- Atchison910 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,563rd highest of 1,996
- Towns in Atchison County6th highest of 13
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, 950 ft at 39.4829° N, 95.2374° 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.