Medicine Lodge Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,860 ft 565 m1,750 ft 530 m1,690 ft 515 m1,570 ft 480 m1,460 ft 445 m1,400 ft 425 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
Medicine Lodge Township sits at about 1,500 ft (455 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,500 ft 455 m
most residents: 1,470–1,540 ft
Lowest
1,400 ft 425 m
on the south side
Highest
1,860 ft 565 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,590 ft 485 m
all land inside township boundaries
Medicine Lodge Township spans about 460 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 | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,860 ft565 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,400 ft425 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Medicine Lodge Township | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Airport (K51) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,549 ft472 m |
| Average of all land | 1,590 ft485 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Barber County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 1,966 2024 est.
- Land area
- 119.4 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 16 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2811° N, 98.5804° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Medicine Lodge River → Salt Fork Arkansas River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Medicine Lodge (K51) 1,549 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Isabel1,850 ft
- Valley Township, Barber County1,840 ft
- Elm Mills Township1,750 ft
- Liberty Township, Kingman County1,740 ft
- Eagle Township, Barber County1,720 ft
- Mingona Township1,550 ft
- Medicine Lodge Township1,500 ft
- Medicine Lodge1,490 ft
- Sharon Township1,460 ft
- Sharon1,460 ft
- Moore Township1,440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas798th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Barber County14th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gypsum Hills1,860 ft
- Twin Peaks1,770 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.