Pottawatomie Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,450 ft 440 m1,340 ft 410 m1,290 ft 390 m1,180 ft 360 m1,070 ft 325 m1,010 ft 310 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
Pottawatomie Township sits at about 1,200 ft (365 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,200 ft 365 m
most residents: 1,080–1,260 ft
Lowest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,450 ft 440 m
on the west side
Average
1,200 ft 365 m
all land inside township boundaries
Pottawatomie Township spans about 440 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 | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Average of all land | 1,200 ft365 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.0 mi west to east through the middle of Pottawatomie Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Pottawatomie County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 700 2024 est.
- Land area
- 59.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 12 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3372° N, 96.4327° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- 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
- Shannon Township, Pottawatomie County1,400 ft
- Sherman Township, Pottawatomie County1,380 ft
- Green Township1,310 ft
- Rock Creek Township, Pottawatomie County1,200 ft
- Westmoreland1,200 ft
- Pottawatomie Township1,200 ft
- Union Township, Pottawatomie County1,180 ft
- St. George Township1,120 ft
- Blue Township1,060 ft
- Louisville Township1,040 ft
- Louisville1,000 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,361st highest of 1,996
- Towns in Pottawatomie County15th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Ephraim1,310 ft
- Mount Mitchell1,270 ft
- Prospect Hill1,200 ft
- Rock Hill, Riley County1,190 ft
- Longview Hill1,190 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, 1,010 ft at 39.2660° N, 96.3904° 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.