Lafayette Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 355 m1,070 ft 325 m1,030 ft 315 m930 ft 285 m840 ft 255 m790 ft 240 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Lafayette Township sits at about 980 ft (295 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
980 ft 295 m
few residents
Lowest
790 ft 240 m
on the south side
Highest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the northwest side
Average
980 ft 295 m
all land inside township boundaries
Lafayette Township spans about 380 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 | 980 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 790 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 980 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.0 mi south to north through the middle of Lafayette Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Chautauqua County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 41 2024 est.
- Land area
- 59.2 sq mi + 1.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2441° N, 96.1371° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Little Caney River → Caney River → Verdigris River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Center Township, Chautauqua County1,070 ft
- Wildcat Township, Elk County1,050 ft
- Moline1,040 ft
- Lafayette Township980 ft
- Elk Falls Township960 ft
- Oak Valley Township960 ft
- Elk Falls960 ft
- Longton Township920 ft
- Longton910 ft
- Sedan860 ft
- Peru820 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,731st highest of 1,996
- Towns in Chautauqua County2nd highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Berry Hill1,040 ft
- Round Mound, Montgomery County1,010 ft
- Bald Mound970 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).
- 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, 790 ft at 37.1871° N, 96.1332° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.