Potosi Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 315 m970 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m860 ft 260 m790 ft 240 m750 ft 230 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Potosi Township sits at about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 260 m
most residents: 840–890 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,040 ft 315 m
on the northwest side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside township boundaries
Potosi 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 | 860 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 750 ft230 m |
| Airport (1KS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 860 ft262 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.5 mi west to east through the middle of Potosi Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Linn County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 1,868 2024 est.
- Land area
- 54.6 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 34 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.1720° N, 94.7029° 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
- Linn County (1KS) 860 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Paris Township940 ft
- Hume, MO890 ft
- Mound City Township890 ft
- Prescott890 ft
- Sheridan Township, Linn County880 ft
- Mound City870 ft
- Potosi Township860 ft
- Pleasanton860 ft
- Amoret, MO850 ft
- Walnut Township, MO830 ft
- Valley Township, Linn County830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,937th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Linn County15th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Guthrie Mountain1,010 ft
- Graveyard Mound950 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.