Otter Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,460 ft 445 m1,320 ft 405 m1,260 ft 385 m1,120 ft 340 m990 ft 300 m920 ft 280 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
Otter Township sits at about 1,200 ft (365 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,200 ft 365 m
few residents
Lowest
920 ft 280 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,460 ft 445 m
on the south side
Average
1,180 ft 360 m
all land inside township boundaries
Otter Township spans about 540 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 920 ft280 m |
| Average of all land | 1,180 ft360 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.5 mi west to east through the middle of Otter Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Cowley County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 32 2024 est.
- Land area
- 51.8 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1949° N, 96.5862° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Caney River → Verdigris 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
- Burden1,390 ft
- Silver Creek Township1,390 ft
- Sheridan Township, Cowley County1,320 ft
- Grant Township, Cowley County1,320 ft
- Cambridge1,270 ft
- Windsor Township1,270 ft
- Cedar Township, Cowley County1,210 ft
- Otter Township1,200 ft
- Dexter Township1,190 ft
- Dexter1,180 ft
- Cedar Vale950 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,366th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Cowley County23rd highest of 36
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hogback Hill1,240 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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, 920 ft at 37.1079° N, 96.5285° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.