Paola Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m1,010 ft 310 m980 ft 300 m920 ft 280 m860 ft 260 m820 ft 250 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
Paola Township sits at about 910 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 280 m
most residents: 860–970 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the west side
Average
910 ft 280 m
all land inside township boundaries
Paola Township spans about 250 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 | 910 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 820 ft250 m |
| Airport (K81) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.6 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 943 ft287 m |
| Average of all land | 910 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.0 mi west to east through the middle of Paola Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Miami County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 1,108 2024 est.
- Land area
- 25.9 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 43 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.5642° N, 94.8899° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Marais des Cygnes River → Osage River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Miami County (K81) 943 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Richland Township, Miami County1,020 ft
- Marysville Township1,000 ft
- Stanton Township970 ft
- Somerset940 ft
- Valley Township930 ft
- Osawatomie Township920 ft
- Paola Township910 ft
- Osage Township, Miami County910 ft
- Paola910 ft
- Hillsdale900 ft
- Osawatomie870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,850th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Miami County15th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fowler Hill1,040 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.