Mertilla Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,830 ft 865 m2,770 ft 845 m2,730 ft 835 m2,670 ft 815 m2,610 ft 795 m2,570 ft 785 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
Mertilla Township sits at about 2,760 ft (840 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,760 ft 840 m
most residents: 2,690–2,810 ft
Lowest
2,570 ft 785 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,830 ft 865 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,740 ft 835 m
all land inside township boundaries
Mertilla Township spans about 260 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 | 2,760 ft840 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,830 ft865 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,570 ft785 m |
| Average of all land | 2,740 ft835 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
14 mi west to east through the middle of Mertilla Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Meade County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 161 2024 est.
- Land area
- 150.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3875° N, 100.5163° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Crooked Creek → Cimarron River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Copeland2,820 ft
- Copeland Township2,820 ft
- Kismet2,780 ft
- Montezuma2,780 ft
- Montezuma Township2,780 ft
- Plains2,760 ft
- Mertilla Township2,760 ft
- West Plains Township2,760 ft
- Crooked Creek Township2,590 ft
- Meade2,490 ft
- Meade Center Township2,490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas147th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Meade County2nd highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Hills2,740 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.