Center Township, Rice County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,830 ft 560 m1,790 ft 545 m1,770 ft 540 m1,720 ft 525 m1,680 ft 510 m1,660 ft 505 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, Rice County sits at about 1,700 ft (515 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,700 ft 515 m
most residents: 1,670–1,760 ft
Lowest
1,660 ft 505 m
on the east side
Highest
1,830 ft 555 m
on the west side
Average
1,710 ft 520 m
all land inside township boundaries
Center Township, Rice County spans about 170 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 | 1,700 ft515 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,830 ft555 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,660 ft505 m |
| Airport (LYO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.5 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 1,692 ft516 m |
| Average of all land | 1,710 ft520 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the middle of Center Township, Rice County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Rice County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 103 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3115° N, 98.3033° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Cow Creek → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lyons-Rice County Municipal (LYO) 1,692 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Raymond Township1,740 ft
- Raymond1,720 ft
- Bell Township, Rice County1,720 ft
- Lincoln Township, Rice County1,720 ft
- Chase1,720 ft
- Harrison Township, Rice County1,710 ft
- Center Township, Rice County1,700 ft
- Lyons1,690 ft
- Alden1,680 ft
- Valley Township, Rice County1,680 ft
- Atlanta Township1,660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas608th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Rice County14th highest of 28
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.