Center Township, Rawlins County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,280 ft 1,000 m3,160 ft 960 m3,100 ft 945 m2,980 ft 905 m2,850 ft 870 m2,790 ft 850 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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, Rawlins County sits at about 3,050 ft (930 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,050 ft 930 m
most residents: 2,930–3,160 ft
Lowest
2,790 ft 850 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,280 ft 1,000 m
on the southwest side
Average
3,080 ft 940 m
all land inside township boundaries
Center Township, Rawlins County spans about 490 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 | 3,050 ft930 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 3,280 ft1,000 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,790 ft850 m |
| Airport (ADT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.3 mi north of the township boundaries | 2,991 ft912 m |
| Average of all land | 3,080 ft940 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
24 mi south to north through the middle of Center Township, Rawlins County.
Altitude Effects
What 3,050 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.3 °F96.9 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.8 inHg (90.6 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.7% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+6% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Rawlins County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 291 2024 est.
- Land area
- 266.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7884° N, 101.0608° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Beaver Creek → Republican River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Atwood/Rawlins County (ADT) 2,991 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rocewood Township3,330 ft
- Mirage Township3,250 ft
- Center Township, Rawlins County3,050 ft
- Driftwood Township3,050 ft
- Union Township, Rawlins County3,000 ft
- Achilles Township2,880 ft
- Atwood Township2,860 ft
- Atwood2,860 ft
- Ludell Township2,790 ft
- Ludell2,770 ft
- Herl Township2,760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas77th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Rawlins County4th highest of 14
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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.