Kanwaka Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,140 ft 345 m1,070 ft 325 m1,030 ft 315 m960 ft 295 m890 ft 270 m860 ft 260 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
Kanwaka Township sits at about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
most residents: 940–1,060 ft
Lowest
860 ft 260 m
on the east side
Highest
1,140 ft 345 m
on the west side
Average
1,010 ft 305 m
all land inside township boundaries
Kanwaka Township spans about 280 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 | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 860 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kanwaka Township | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Airport (LWC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.4 mi east of the township boundaries | 833 ft254 m |
| Average of all land | 1,010 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Douglas County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 1,495 2024 est.
- Land area
- 41.8 sq mi + 2.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 36 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9731° N, 95.3728° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wakarusa River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lawrence Regional (LWC) 833 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kanwaka Township1,030 ft
- Rural Township990 ft
- Lecompton Township980 ft
- Clinton Township980 ft
- Lecompton940 ft
- Lawrence890 ft
- Wakarusa Township880 ft
- Kentucky Township850 ft
- Williamstown850 ft
- Perry850 ft
- Grant Township, Douglas County830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,623rd highest of 1,996
- Towns in Douglas County5th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Coon Point1,120 ft
- Twin Mounds, Douglas County1,110 ft
- Blue Mound, Douglas County1,056 ft
- Nolan Hill1,050 ft
- Shank Hill1,000 ft
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, 860 ft at 38.9907° N, 95.3171° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.