Luray Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,800 ft 550 m1,720 ft 525 m1,680 ft 515 m1,610 ft 490 m1,530 ft 465 m1,490 ft 455 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
Luray Township sits at about 1,580 ft (485 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,580 ft 485 m
most residents: 1,560–1,620 ft
Lowest
1,490 ft 455 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,800 ft 550 m
on the south side
Average
1,650 ft 500 m
all land inside township boundaries
Luray Township spans about 310 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 | 1,580 ft485 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Luray Township | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Average of all land | 1,650 ft500 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Russell County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 208 2024 est.
- Land area
- 70.8 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.9 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1106° N, 98.6890° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Wolf Creek → Saline River → Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Liberty Township, Osborne County1,910 ft
- Winfield Township1,790 ft
- Valley Township, Osborne County1,760 ft
- Waldo Township1,730 ft
- Waldo1,720 ft
- Delhi Township1,700 ft
- Jackson Township, Osborne County1,700 ft
- Luray Township1,580 ft
- Luray1,580 ft
- Fairview Township, Russell County1,500 ft
- Lucas1,500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas702nd highest of 1,996
- Towns in Russell County17th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sand Mound2,048 ft
- Tabletop Hill2,000 ft
- Sunny Slope Mound1,910 ft
- Williams Butte1,840 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, 1,490 ft at 39.0643° N, 98.5968° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.