Nelson Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,590 ft 485 m1,520 ft 465 m1,490 ft 455 m1,420 ft 435 m1,350 ft 415 m1,320 ft 405 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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
Nelson Township sits at about 1,400 ft (425 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,400 ft 425 m
most residents: 1,360–1,480 ft
Lowest
1,320 ft 405 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,590 ft 485 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,410 ft 430 m
all land inside township boundaries
Nelson Township spans about 270 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 | 1,400 ft425 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,320 ft405 m |
| Airport (CNK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,488 ft454 m |
| Average of all land | 1,410 ft430 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Nelson Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Cloud County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 106 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.3 sq mi
- Density
- 3.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5322° N, 97.5266° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Republican River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Blosser Municipal (CNK) 1,488 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Center Township, Cloud County1,550 ft
- Aurora Township1,490 ft
- Aurora1,490 ft
- Lincoln Township, Cloud County1,440 ft
- Concordia1,410 ft
- Nelson Township1,400 ft
- Lawrence Township1,330 ft
- Shirley Township1,330 ft
- Ames1,310 ft
- Clyde1,300 ft
- Elk Township, Cloud County1,300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas974th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Cloud County14th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Mounds, Cloud County1,520 ft
- Tobyne Hill1,420 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.