Elm Creek Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,470 ft 445 m1,400 ft 425 m1,360 ft 415 m1,300 ft 395 m1,230 ft 375 m1,200 ft 365 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
Elm Creek Township sits at about 1,300 ft (400 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,300 ft 400 m
most residents: 1,230–1,340 ft
Lowest
1,200 ft 365 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,467 ft 447 m
on North Pole Mound
Average
1,260 ft 385 m
all land inside township boundaries
Elm Creek Township 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 | 1,300 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on North Pole Mound | 1,467 ft447 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Airport (SLN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,288 ft393 m |
| Average of all land | 1,260 ft385 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Elm Creek Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Saline County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 862 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 24 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9078° N, 97.6241° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Salina Regional (SLN) 1,288 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pleasant Valley Township, Saline County1,360 ft
- Elm Creek Township1,300 ft
- Culver Township1,260 ft
- Culver1,260 ft
- Bennington Township1,240 ft
- Smoky Hill Township, Saline County1,240 ft
- Greeley Township, Saline County1,240 ft
- Bennington1,240 ft
- Salina1,230 ft
- Cambria Township1,210 ft
- New Cambria1,190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,173rd highest of 1,996
- Towns in Saline County10th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Soldier Cap Mound1,580 ft
- Potato Hill, Saline County1,530 ft
- Weston Hill1,500 ft
- Iron Mound1,498 ft
- North Pole Mound1,467 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).
- 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, 1,190 ft at 38.8912° N, 97.6007° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.