Prospect Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,640 ft 500 m1,550 ft 475 m1,500 ft 460 m1,410 ft 430 m1,320 ft 400 m1,270 ft 390 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Prospect Township sits at about 1,340 ft (410 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,340 ft 410 m

most residents: 1,340–1,390 ft

Lowest

1,270 ft 390 m

on the northwest side

Highest

1,640 ft 500 m

on the east side

Average

1,420 ft 435 m

all land inside township boundaries

Prospect Township spans about 370 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	1,340 ft410 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side	1,640 ft500 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side	1,270 ft390 m
Town center USGS map point for Prospect Township	1,380 ft420 m
Airport (EQA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.1 mi southwest of the township boundaries	1,379 ft420 m
Average of all land	1,420 ft435 m

Elevation profile, west to east

6.0 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Butler County, Kansas, United States
Population: 2,572 2024 est.
Land area: 79.1 sq mi + 5.7 sq mi water
Density: 33 per sq mi
Coordinates: 37.8070° N, 96.7892° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Walnut River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: El Dorado/Capt Jack Thomas Memorial (EQA) 1,379 ft

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rosalia1,520 ft
Rosalia Township1,490 ft
Lincoln Township, Butler County1,420 ft
Chelsea Township1,400 ft
Fairview Township, Butler County1,370 ft
Little Walnut Township1,350 ft
Leon1,350 ft
Prospect Township1,340 ft
El Dorado Township1,320 ft
Spring Township1,320 ft
El Dorado1,320 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Kansas1,087th highest of 1,996
Towns in Butler County26th highest of 44

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Temple Knob1,650 ft
Windy Hill1,470 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, 1,270 ft at 37.8285° N, 96.8171° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.