Penn Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,780 ft 545 m1,710 ft 520 m1,670 ft 510 m1,600 ft 490 m1,530 ft 465 m1,490 ft 455 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
Penn Township sits at about 1,540 ft (470 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,540 ft 470 m
most residents: 1,510–1,570 ft
Lowest
1,490 ft 455 m
on the east side
Highest
1,780 ft 545 m
on North Hill
Average
1,590 ft 485 m
all land inside township boundaries
Penn Township spans about 290 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 | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on North Hill | 1,780 ft545 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Airport (K75) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,547 ft472 m |
| Average of all land | 1,590 ft485 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.9 mi south to north through the middle of Penn Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Osborne County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 128 2024 est.
- Land area
- 46.1 sq mi
- Density
- 2.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4328° N, 98.6734° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Solomon River → Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Osborne Municipal (K75) 1,547 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Independence Township, Osborne County1,720 ft
- Lawrence Township, Osborne County1,700 ft
- Hancock Township1,650 ft
- Tilden Township1,640 ft
- Osborne1,550 ft
- Penn Township1,540 ft
- Portis1,540 ft
- Bethany Township1,540 ft
- Corinth Township1,520 ft
- Ross Township1,480 ft
- Downs1,480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas744th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Osborne County23rd highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sand Mound2,048 ft
- Sunny Slope Mound1,910 ft
- South Hill1,800 ft
- North Hill1,780 ft
- Medicine Peak1,760 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).
- 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, 1,490 ft at 39.4226° N, 98.6060° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.