Prairie Dog Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,850 ft 870 m2,800 ft 855 m2,770 ft 845 m2,720 ft 830 m2,660 ft 810 m2,640 ft 805 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
Prairie Dog Township sits at about 2,770 ft (845 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,770 ft 845 m
few residents
Lowest
2,640 ft 805 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,850 ft 870 m
on the west side
Average
2,760 ft 840 m
all land inside township boundaries
Prairie Dog Township spans about 210 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 | 2,770 ft845 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 2,850 ft870 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,640 ft805 m |
| Average of all land | 2,760 ft840 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Prairie Dog Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Decatur County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 32 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi
- Density
- 0.9 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5809° N, 100.5805° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Prairie Dog Creek → Republican 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
- Rexford2,950 ft
- Jefferson Township, Rawlins County2,940 ft
- Cook Township2,880 ft
- Selden2,830 ft
- Bassettville Township2,810 ft
- Summit Township, Decatur County2,780 ft
- Prairie Dog Township2,770 ft
- Dresden Township, Decatur County2,730 ft
- Dresden2,730 ft
- Custer Township, Decatur County2,700 ft
- Lyon Township, Decatur County2,660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas144th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Decatur County5th highest of 29
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.