Meade Center Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,690 ft 820 m2,610 ft 795 m2,560 ft 780 m2,480 ft 755 m2,390 ft 730 m2,340 ft 715 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Meade Center Township sits at about 2,490 ft (760 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,490 ft 760 m
most residents: 2,460–2,510 ft
Lowest
2,340 ft 715 m
on the south side
Highest
2,690 ft 820 m
on the west side
Average
2,500 ft 760 m
all land inside township boundaries
Meade Center Township spans about 350 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 | 2,490 ft760 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 2,690 ft820 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 2,340 ft715 m |
| Airport (MEJ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 2,527 ft770 m |
| Average of all land | 2,500 ft760 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.0 mi west to east through the middle of Meade Center Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Meade County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 1,689 2024 est.
- Land area
- 108.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 16 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2822° N, 100.3387° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Crooked Creek → Cimarron River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Meade Municipal (MEJ) 2,527 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kismet2,780 ft
- Plains2,760 ft
- Mertilla Township2,760 ft
- West Plains Township2,760 ft
- Cimarron Township, Meade County2,660 ft
- Crooked Creek Township2,590 ft
- Wilburn Township2,570 ft
- Meade2,490 ft
- Meade Center Township2,490 ft
- Fowler2,480 ft
- Sand Creek Township2,290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas221st highest of 1,996
- Towns in Meade County7th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Hills2,740 ft
- Table Mesa2,650 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, 2,340 ft at 37.1562° N, 100.3957° 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.