Protection Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,250 ft 685 m2,110 ft 645 m2,040 ft 620 m1,900 ft 580 m1,760 ft 535 m1,690 ft 515 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Protection Township sits at about 1,850 ft (565 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,850 ft 565 m
most residents: 1,830–1,860 ft
Lowest
1,690 ft 515 m
on the south side
Highest
2,250 ft 685 m
on the north side
Average
1,870 ft 570 m
all land inside township boundaries
Protection Township spans about 560 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 | 1,850 ft565 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 2,250 ft685 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Protection Township | 1,850 ft565 m |
| Airport (3K8) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi east of the township boundaries | 2,086 ft636 m |
| Average of all land | 1,870 ft570 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
26 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Comanche County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 651 2024 est.
- Land area
- 173.0 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2014° N, 99.4840° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Cimarron River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Comanche County (3K8) 2,086 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bucklin2,410 ft
- Bucklin Township2,410 ft
- Coldwater2,110 ft
- Lexington Township, Clark County2,110 ft
- Coldwater Township2,110 ft
- Powell Township2,050 ft
- Wilmore2,020 ft
- Ashland1,980 ft
- Avilla Township1,950 ft
- Protection1,850 ft
- Protection Township1,850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas490th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Comanche Countylowest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Nebo2,440 ft
- Mount Jesus2,350 ft
- Mount Lookout2,320 ft
- Mount Casino2,130 ft
- Sugarloaf2,000 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.