Center Township, Decatur County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,780 ft 845 m2,720 ft 830 m2,690 ft 820 m2,620 ft 800 m2,560 ft 780 m2,530 ft 770 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
Center Township, Decatur County sits at about 2,620 ft (800 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,620 ft 800 m
most residents: 2,550–2,720 ft
Lowest
2,530 ft 770 m
on the north side
Highest
2,780 ft 845 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,690 ft 820 m
all land inside township boundaries
Center Township, Decatur County spans about 250 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 | 2,620 ft800 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 2,780 ft845 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 2,530 ft770 m |
| Airport (OIN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.4 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 2,707 ft825 m |
| Average of all land | 2,690 ft820 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Center Township, Decatur County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Decatur County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 53 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7835° N, 100.4944° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Sappa Creek → Republican River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Oberlin Municipal (OIN) 2,707 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bassettville Township2,810 ft
- Summit Township, Decatur County2,780 ft
- Sappa Township2,760 ft
- Dresden Township, Decatur County2,730 ft
- Liberty Township, Decatur County2,730 ft
- Custer Township, Decatur County2,700 ft
- Oberlin Township2,670 ft
- Altory Township2,650 ft
- Center Township, Decatur County2,620 ft
- Oberlin2,570 ft
- Olive Township2,540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas185th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Decatur County18th highest of 29
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.