Independent Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,960 ft 600 m1,920 ft 585 m1,890 ft 575 m1,850 ft 560 m1,800 ft 550 m1,770 ft 540 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
Independent Township sits at about 1,810 ft (550 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,810 ft 550 m
most residents: 1,800–1,830 ft
Lowest
1,770 ft 540 m
near the middle
Highest
1,960 ft 600 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,850 ft 565 m
all land inside township boundaries
Independent Township spans about 190 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 | 1,810 ft550 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,960 ft600 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 1,770 ft540 m |
| Average of all land | 1,850 ft565 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Independent Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Barton County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 647 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi
- Density
- 18 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.5278° N, 98.5354° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Cow Creek → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cleveland Township, Barton County1,890 ft
- Palacky Township1,880 ft
- Cheyenne Township, Barton County1,860 ft
- Odin1,860 ft
- Logan Township, Barton County1,810 ft
- Independent Township1,810 ft
- Claflin1,810 ft
- Valley Township, Ellsworth County1,810 ft
- Holyrood1,810 ft
- Bushton1,770 ft
- Farmer Township1,770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas523rd highest of 1,996
- Towns in Barton County30th highest of 33
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.