Prairie Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,610 ft 490 m1,560 ft 475 m1,540 ft 470 m1,500 ft 455 m1,450 ft 445 m1,430 ft 435 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 Township sits at about 1,460 ft (445 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,460 ft 445 m
most residents: 1,450–1,520 ft
Lowest
1,430 ft 435 m
on the east side
Highest
1,610 ft 490 m
on the west side
Average
1,520 ft 465 m
all land inside township boundaries
Prairie Township spans about 180 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 | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Average of all land | 1,520 ft465 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.5 mi west to east through the middle of Prairie Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jewell County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 148 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.9 sq mi
- Density
- 4.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6425° N, 98.0692° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Buffalo 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
- Calvin Township1,690 ft
- Washington Township, Jewell County1,630 ft
- Scottsville1,560 ft
- Buffalo Township1,560 ft
- Jewell1,560 ft
- Browns Creek Township1,540 ft
- Allen Township, Jewell County1,500 ft
- Vicksburg Township1,470 ft
- Plum Creek Township1,470 ft
- Prairie Township1,460 ft
- Randall1,450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas863rd highest of 1,996
- Towns in Jewell County32nd highest of 33
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, 1,430 ft at 39.6343° N, 98.0357° 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.