Custer Township, Decatur County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,810 ft 855 m2,740 ft 835 m2,710 ft 825 m2,640 ft 805 m2,580 ft 785 m2,550 ft 775 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
Custer Township, Decatur County sits at about 2,700 ft (820 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,700 ft 820 m
few residents
Lowest
2,550 ft 775 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,810 ft 855 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,700 ft 820 m
all land inside township boundaries
Custer Township, Decatur County spans about 260 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 | 2,700 ft820 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,810 ft855 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,550 ft775 m |
| Average of all land | 2,700 ft820 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Custer Township, Decatur County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Decatur County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 33 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.7 sq mi
- Density
- 0.9 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6832° N, 100.4513° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Prairie Dog Creek → Republican River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Summit Township, Decatur County2,780 ft
- Prairie Dog Township2,770 ft
- Dresden Township, Decatur County2,730 ft
- Dresden2,730 ft
- Custer Township, Decatur County2,700 ft
- Oberlin Township2,670 ft
- Lyon Township, Decatur County2,660 ft
- Altory Township2,650 ft
- Center Township, Decatur County2,620 ft
- Jennings Township2,510 ft
- Jennings2,500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas163rd highest of 1,996
- Towns in Decatur County11th highest of 29
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).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.