Harper Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,530 ft 465 m1,480 ft 450 m1,460 ft 445 m1,410 ft 430 m1,360 ft 415 m1,330 ft 405 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
Harper Township sits at about 1,490 ft (455 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,490 ft 455 m
most residents: 1,370–1,510 ft
Lowest
1,330 ft 405 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,530 ft 465 m
on the west side
Average
1,450 ft 440 m
all land inside township boundaries
Harper 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 Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Airport (MPR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,498 ft457 m |
| Average of all land | 1,450 ft440 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Harper Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in McPherson County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 135 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.4715° N, 97.7475° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mc Pherson (MPR) 1,498 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- South Sharps Creek Township1,540 ft
- New Gottland Township1,510 ft
- McPherson Township1,500 ft
- Jackson Township, McPherson County1,500 ft
- McPherson1,490 ft
- Harper Township1,490 ft
- Union Township, McPherson County1,390 ft
- Marquette Township1,390 ft
- Marquette1,390 ft
- Smoky Hill Township, McPherson County1,330 ft
- Lindsborg1,330 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas808th highest of 1,996
- Towns in McPherson County22nd highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Soldier Cap Mound1,580 ft
- Twin Mounds, McPherson County1,530 ft
- Potato Hill, Saline County1,530 ft
- Weston Hill1,500 ft
- Coiner Dome1,500 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, 1,330 ft at 38.5218° N, 97.7107° 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.