Plainview Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,210 ft 670 m2,110 ft 645 m2,070 ft 630 m1,980 ft 600 m1,880 ft 575 m1,840 ft 560 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
Plainview Township sits at about 2,040 ft (620 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,040 ft 620 m
few residents
Lowest
1,840 ft 560 m
on the north side
Highest
2,210 ft 670 m
on the west side
Average
2,040 ft 620 m
all land inside township boundaries
Plainview Township spans about 370 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 | 2,040 ft620 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 2,210 ft670 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Average of all land | 2,040 ft620 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Plainview Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Phillips County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 28 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.0 sq mi
- Density
- 0.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6109° N, 99.4123° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- North Fork Solomon River → Solomon River → Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Towanda Township, Phillips County2,110 ft
- Plainview Township2,040 ft
- Logan1,970 ft
- Logan Township1,970 ft
- Rushville Township1,960 ft
- Phillipsburg Township1,910 ft
- Belmont Township1,870 ft
- Bow Creek Township1,860 ft
- Speed1,850 ft
- Solomon Township, Phillips County1,820 ft
- Glade1,810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas354th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Phillips County14th highest of 35
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).
- 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.