Elk Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,220 ft 370 m1,140 ft 345 m1,100 ft 335 m1,020 ft 310 m940 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Elk Township sits at about 1,190 ft (360 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,190 ft 360 m
most residents: 1,050–1,210 ft
Lowest
900 ft 275 m
on the north side
Highest
1,220 ft 370 m
near the middle
Average
1,100 ft 335 m
all land inside township boundaries
Elk Township spans about 320 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 | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 900 ft275 m |
| Average of all land | 1,100 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.0 mi south to north through the middle of Elk Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Osage County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 1,815 2024 est.
- Land area
- 54.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 34 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7899° N, 95.5662° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wakarusa 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
- Overbrook1,200 ft
- Elk Township1,190 ft
- Scranton1,120 ft
- Scranton Township1,120 ft
- Ridgeway Township1,110 ft
- Carbondale1,100 ft
- Appanoose Township1,070 ft
- Fairfax Township1,070 ft
- Junction Township1,060 ft
- Marion Township, Douglas County1,050 ft
- Wakarusa1,000 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,375th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Osage County2nd highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stenger Hill1,230 ft
- Burnett Mound1,142 ft
- Coon Point1,120 ft
- Twin Mounds, Douglas County1,110 ft
- Shank Hill1,000 ft
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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.