Highland Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,560 ft 475 m1,530 ft 465 m1,510 ft 460 m1,480 ft 450 m1,440 ft 440 m1,430 ft 435 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
Highland Township sits at about 1,500 ft (455 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,500 ft 455 m
most residents: 1,470–1,520 ft
Lowest
1,430 ft 435 m
on the south side
Highest
1,560 ft 475 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,490 ft 455 m
all land inside township boundaries
Highland Township spans about 130 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 | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Airport (EWK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.0 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 1,534 ft468 m |
| Average of all land | 1,490 ft455 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Highland Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Harvey County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 374 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.4 sq mi
- Density
- 11 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.1372° N, 97.3272° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Newton-City-County (EWK) 1,534 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Goessel1,540 ft
- West Branch Township1,530 ft
- Walton1,530 ft
- Walton Township1,520 ft
- Meridian Township1,510 ft
- Highland Township1,500 ft
- Hesston1,470 ft
- Emma Township1,470 ft
- Newton Township1,450 ft
- North Newton1,450 ft
- Newton1,440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas800th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Harvey County3rd highest of 22
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.