Russell Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,880 ft 575 m1,800 ft 550 m1,760 ft 535 m1,680 ft 515 m1,600 ft 490 m1,560 ft 475 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
Russell Township sits at about 1,830 ft (560 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,830 ft 560 m
most residents: 1,800–1,870 ft
Lowest
1,560 ft 475 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,880 ft 575 m
on the west side
Average
1,790 ft 545 m
all land inside township boundaries
Russell Township spans about 320 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 | 1,830 ft560 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,880 ft575 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Airport (RSL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.2 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 1,864 ft568 m |
| Average of all land | 1,790 ft545 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Russell Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Russell County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 89 2024 est.
- Land area
- 49.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8868° N, 98.8242° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Russell Municipal (RSL) 1,864 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gorham1,910 ft
- Big Creek Township, Russell County1,910 ft
- Bunker Hill1,860 ft
- Lincoln Township, Russell County1,850 ft
- Center Township, Russell County1,840 ft
- Fairfield Township1,840 ft
- Russell1,830 ft
- Russell Township1,830 ft
- Grant Township, Russell County1,820 ft
- Dorrance1,730 ft
- Plymouth Township1,730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas510th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Russell County9th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Hills2,140 ft
- Mount Os2,090 ft
- Tabletop Hill2,000 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.