Ross Township, Cherokee County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 295 m940 ft 285 m920 ft 280 m890 ft 270 m850 ft 260 m840 ft 255 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
Ross Township, Cherokee County sits at about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
900 ft 275 m
most residents: 880–920 ft
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the southwest side
Highest
980 ft 295 m
on the north side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside township boundaries
Ross Township, Cherokee County spans about 140 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 | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 980 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 840 ft255 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.1 mi south to north through the middle of Ross Township, Cherokee County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 622 2024 est.
- Land area
- 54.1 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 12 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2745° N, 94.8794° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Neosho River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sheridan Township930 ft
- Cherokee930 ft
- Weir920 ft
- Cherokee Township, Cherokee County920 ft
- Roseland920 ft
- Mineral Township920 ft
- Scammon910 ft
- Ross Township, Cherokee County900 ft
- West Mineral900 ft
- Salamanca Township900 ft
- Sheridan Township, Cherokee County880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,864th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Cherokee County7th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Mound, Cherokee County970 ft
- Bell Mound930 ft
- Timber Hill880 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, 840 ft at 37.2199° N, 94.9401° 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.