Herl Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,130 ft 955 m3,010 ft 915 m2,940 ft 895 m2,820 ft 860 m2,700 ft 820 m2,630 ft 805 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Herl Township sits at about 2,760 ft (840 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,760 ft 840 m
most residents: 2,670–3,000 ft
Lowest
2,630 ft 805 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,130 ft 955 m
on the south side
Average
2,900 ft 885 m
all land inside township boundaries
Herl Township spans about 500 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 | 2,760 ft840 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 3,130 ft955 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,630 ft805 m |
| Average of all land | 2,900 ft885 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
18 mi south to north through the middle of Herl Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Rawlins County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 257 2024 est.
- Land area
- 189.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8622° N, 100.8424° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Beaver 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
- Union Township, Rawlins County3,000 ft
- Achilles Township2,880 ft
- Atwood Township2,860 ft
- Atwood2,860 ft
- Logan Township, Decatur County2,800 ft
- Ludell Township2,790 ft
- Ludell2,770 ft
- Sappa Township2,760 ft
- Herl Township2,760 ft
- Finley Township2,730 ft
- Herndon2,670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas150th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Rawlins County13th highest of 14
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, 2,630 ft at 39.9113° N, 100.7432° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.