Independence Township, Osborne County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,920 ft 585 m1,830 ft 560 m1,790 ft 545 m1,700 ft 520 m1,610 ft 490 m1,570 ft 480 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
Independence Township, Osborne County sits at about 1,720 ft (525 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,720 ft 525 m
few residents
Lowest
1,570 ft 480 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,920 ft 585 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,730 ft 530 m
all land inside township boundaries
Independence Township, Osborne County spans about 350 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,720 ft525 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,920 ft585 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Airport (K75) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 1,547 ft472 m |
| Average of all land | 1,730 ft530 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Independence Township, Osborne County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Osborne County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 26 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3475° N, 98.7599° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- South Fork Solomon River → Solomon River → Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Osborne Municipal (K75) 1,547 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Victor Township1,940 ft
- Mount Ayr Township1,890 ft
- Covert Township1,880 ft
- Kill Creek Township1,820 ft
- Winfield Township1,790 ft
- Valley Township, Osborne County1,760 ft
- Independence Township, Osborne County1,720 ft
- Hancock Township1,650 ft
- Tilden Township1,640 ft
- Osborne1,550 ft
- Penn Township1,540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas581st highest of 1,996
- Towns in Osborne County13th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sand Mound2,048 ft
- Sunny Slope Mound1,910 ft
- South Hill1,800 ft
- North Hill1,780 ft
- Medicine Peak1,760 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.