Payne Township, Gove County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,800 ft 850 m2,710 ft 825 m2,660 ft 810 m2,570 ft 785 m2,490 ft 755 m2,440 ft 745 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Payne Township, Gove County sits at about 2,740 ft (835 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,740 ft 835 m
most residents: 2,620–2,750 ft
Lowest
2,440 ft 745 m
on the south side
Highest
2,800 ft 850 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,650 ft 810 m
all land inside township boundaries
Payne Township, Gove County spans about 360 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 | 2,740 ft835 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,800 ft850 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 2,440 ft745 m |
| Airport (1QK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.4 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 2,637 ft804 m |
| Average of all land | 2,650 ft810 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
18 mi south to north through the middle of Payne Township, Gove County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Gove County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 215 2024 est.
- Land area
- 125.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0827° N, 100.3615° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Big Creek → Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Gove County (1QK) 2,637 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Grinnell Township2,910 ft
- Grainfield2,810 ft
- Grainfield Township2,810 ft
- Park2,750 ft
- Payne Township, Gove County2,740 ft
- Gove Township2,680 ft
- Quinter2,670 ft
- Baker Township, Gove County2,670 ft
- Gove City2,630 ft
- Collyer2,580 ft
- Collyer Township2,510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas153rd highest of 1,996
- Towns in Gove County7th highest of 14
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.