Plum Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,050 ft 625 m1,980 ft 600 m1,940 ft 590 m1,870 ft 570 m1,800 ft 550 m1,760 ft 540 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
Plum Township sits at about 1,850 ft (565 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,850 ft 565 m
most residents: 1,830–1,870 ft
Lowest
1,760 ft 540 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,050 ft 625 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,870 ft 570 m
all land inside township boundaries
Plum 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 | 1,850 ft565 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,050 ft625 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,760 ft540 m |
| Average of all land | 1,870 ft570 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Plum Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Phillips County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 304 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 8.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7642° N, 99.1193° 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
- Crystal Township1,990 ft
- Arcade Township1,880 ft
- Agra1,850 ft
- Plum Township1,850 ft
- Valley Township, Phillips County1,830 ft
- Deer Creek Township, Phillips County1,810 ft
- Cedar Township, Smith County1,780 ft
- Kensington1,780 ft
- Valley Township, Smith County1,720 ft
- Kirwin Township1,700 ft
- Kirwin1,700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas493rd highest of 1,996
- Towns in Phillips County29th highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Mound, Phillips County2,070 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, 1,760 ft at 39.7426° N, 99.1582° 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.