Itasca Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map

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
Itasca Township sits at about 3,700 ft (1,125 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Itasca Township spans about 150 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 | 3,700 ft1,125 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 3,730 ft1,135 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 3,580 ft1,090 m |
| Airport (GLD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi north of the township boundaries | 3,658 ft1,115 m |
| Average of all land | 3,650 ft1,115 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.8 mi west to east through the middle of Itasca Township.
Altitude Effects
What 3,700 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
26.1 inHg (88.5 kPa): each breath holds 13% less air.
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Sherman County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 284 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.7 sq mi
- Density
- 8.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3259° N, 101.6989° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Middle Fork Sappa Creek → Sappa Creek → Republican River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Renner Field/Goodland Municipal (GLD) 3,658 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- McPherson Township, Sherman County3,880 ft
- Grant Township, Sherman County3,830 ft
- Logan Township, Sherman County3,700 ft
- Itasca Township3,700 ft
- Goodland3,690 ft
- Voltaire Township3,580 ft
- Edson3,570 ft
- Washington Township, Sherman County3,570 ft
- Llanos Township3,440 ft
- Brewster3,430 ft
- West Hale Township3,430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas8th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Sherman County6th highest of 11
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, 3,550 ft at 39.3165° N, 101.6365° 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.