Dresden Township, Decatur County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,830 ft 860 m2,760 ft 840 m2,730 ft 830 m2,660 ft 810 m2,590 ft 790 m2,560 ft 780 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
Dresden Township, Decatur County sits at about 2,730 ft (830 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,730 ft 830 m
most residents: 2,720–2,760 ft
Lowest
2,560 ft 780 m
on the north side
Highest
2,830 ft 860 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,720 ft 830 m
all land inside township boundaries
Dresden Township, Decatur County spans about 270 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 | 2,730 ft830 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 2,830 ft860 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 2,560 ft780 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dresden Township, Decatur County | 2,730 ft830 m |
| Average of all land | 2,720 ft830 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Decatur County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 99 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.7 sq mi
- Density
- 2.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6242° N, 100.4224° 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
- Selden2,830 ft
- Prairie Dog Township2,770 ft
- Dresden Township, Decatur County2,730 ft
- Dresden2,730 ft
- Custer Township, Decatur County2,700 ft
- Lyon Township, Decatur County2,660 ft
- Altory Township2,650 ft
- Allison Township2,590 ft
- Pleasant Valley Township, Decatur County2,530 ft
- Jennings Township2,510 ft
- Jennings2,500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas154th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Decatur County7th 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.