Mission Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,200 ft 365 m1,120 ft 340 m1,080 ft 330 m990 ft 305 m910 ft 275 m870 ft 265 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
Mission Township sits at about 1,060 ft (325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,060 ft 325 m
most residents: 1,010–1,130 ft
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the north side
Highest
1,200 ft 365 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,080 ft 330 m
all land inside township boundaries
Mission Township spans about 330 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 | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 870 ft265 m |
| Airport (FOE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.3 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 1,078 ft329 m |
| Average of all land | 1,080 ft330 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.5 mi south to north through the middle of Mission Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Shawnee County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 10,127 2024 est.
- Land area
- 28.0 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 361 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0045° N, 95.7893° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Topeka Regional (FOE) 1,078 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Auburn Township1,090 ft
- Auburn1,060 ft
- Mission Township1,060 ft
- Williamsport Township1,040 ft
- Dover Township1,030 ft
- Topeka Township1,020 ft
- Wakarusa1,000 ft
- Menoken Township960 ft
- Topeka960 ft
- Silver Lake Township910 ft
- Silver Lake910 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,566th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Shawnee County3rd highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buffalo Mound1,270 ft
- Stenger Hill1,230 ft
- Burnett Mound1,142 ft
- Peanaz Hill1,030 ft
- Hickory Knob1,020 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.