Crystal Plains Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,850 ft 565 m1,800 ft 550 m1,780 ft 540 m1,730 ft 525 m1,680 ft 510 m1,650 ft 505 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Crystal Plains Township sits at about 1,780 ft (545 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

1,780 ft 545 m

few residents

Lowest

1,650 ft 505 m

on the east side

Highest

1,850 ft 565 m

on the northwest side

Average

1,780 ft 540 m

all land inside township boundaries

Crystal Plains Township spans about 200 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by	1,780 ft545 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side	1,850 ft565 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side	1,650 ft505 m
Airport (K82) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.8 mi west of the township boundaries	1,800 ft549 m
Average of all land	1,780 ft540 m

Elevation profile, west to east

6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Crystal Plains Township.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Smith County, Kansas, United States
Population: 27 2024 est.
Land area: 35.9 sq mi
Density: 0.8 per sq mi
Coordinates: 39.7123° N, 98.6356° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Great Plains
Drains to: Solomon River → Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Smith Center Municipal (K82) 1,800 ft

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Blaine Township, Smith County1,840 ft
Lebanon1,840 ft
Oak Township1,840 ft
Smith Center1,800 ft
Center Township1,800 ft
Crystal Plains Township1,780 ft
Banner Township, Smith County1,720 ft
Garfield Township, Smith County1,700 ft
Webster Township1,700 ft
Lincoln Township, Smith County1,640 ft
Harlan Township1,590 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Kansas542nd highest of 1,996
Towns in Smith County18th highest of 31

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

North Hill1,780 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; too few residents live here to weight by people.
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, 1,650 ft at 39.7182° N, 98.6176° 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.