Manhattan Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,400 ft 430 m1,300 ft 395 m1,250 ft 380 m1,140 ft 350 m1,040 ft 315 m980 ft 300 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
Manhattan Township sits at about 1,040 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,040 ft 315 m
most residents: 1,020–1,220 ft
Lowest
980 ft 300 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,400 ft 430 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,120 ft 345 m
all land inside township boundaries
Manhattan Township spans about 420 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 | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,400 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 980 ft300 m |
| Airport (MHK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.5 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,066 ft325 m |
| Average of all land | 1,120 ft345 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.6 mi west to east through the middle of Manhattan Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Riley County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 2,255 2024 est.
- Land area
- 31.7 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 71 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2148° N, 96.5814° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Manhattan Regional (MHK) 1,066 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wildcat Township1,280 ft
- Grant Township, Riley County1,190 ft
- Keats1,130 ft
- St. George Township1,120 ft
- Zeandale Township1,080 ft
- Manhattan1,080 ft
- Ashland Township1,070 ft
- Blue Township1,060 ft
- St. George1,060 ft
- Manhattan Township1,040 ft
- Zeandale1,010 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,608th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Riley County22nd highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tabor Hill1,320 ft
- Stagg Hill1,240 ft
- Prospect Hill1,200 ft
- Rock Hill, Riley County1,190 ft
- Longview Hill1,190 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).
- 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.