Lane Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,930 ft 590 m1,860 ft 570 m1,830 ft 555 m1,760 ft 535 m1,680 ft 515 m1,650 ft 500 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Lane Township sits at about 1,790 ft (545 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,790 ft 545 m

most residents: 1,720–1,800 ft

Lowest

1,650 ft 500 m

on the east side

Highest

1,930 ft 590 m

on the north side

Average

1,790 ft 545 m

all land inside township boundaries

Lane 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	1,790 ft545 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side	1,930 ft590 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side	1,650 ft500 m
Airport (K82) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.5 mi east of the township boundaries	1,800 ft549 m
Average of all land	1,790 ft545 m

Elevation profile, west to east

6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Lane Township.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Smith County, Kansas, United States
Population: 104 2024 est.
Land area: 35.8 sq mi
Density: 2.9 per sq mi
Coordinates: 39.7642° N, 98.9167° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Great Plains
Drains to: North Fork Solomon River → Solomon River → Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Smith Center Municipal (K82) 1,800 ft

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Kansas541st highest of 1,996
Towns in Smith County17th highest of 31

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Blue Mound, Phillips County2,070 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, 1,650 ft at 39.7426° N, 98.8429° 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. All public domain.