Scott Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
990 ft 300 m930 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m840 ft 255 m780 ft 240 m750 ft 230 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
Scott Township sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 820–940 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the northeast side
Highest
990 ft 300 m
on the southwest side
Average
860 ft 265 m
all land inside township boundaries
Scott Township spans about 240 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 990 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 750 ft230 m |
| Airport (FSK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.5 mi west of the township boundaries | 918 ft280 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
10 mi south to north through the middle of Scott Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Bourbon County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 2,299 2024 est.
- Land area
- 68.7 sq mi + 1.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 33 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.8123° N, 94.6913° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Marmaton River → Osage River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Fort Scott Municipal (FSK) 918 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pawnee Township, Bourbon County960 ft
- Mill Creek Township, Bourbon County900 ft
- Drywood Township880 ft
- Marmaton Township, Bourbon County870 ft
- Garland870 ft
- Scott Township870 ft
- Fort Scott850 ft
- Richards, MO830 ft
- Richland Township, Vernon County, MO820 ft
- Deerfield Township, MO800 ft
- Coal Township, MO800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,918th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Bourbon County13th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Breezy Hill1,030 ft
- Guthrie Mountain1,010 ft
- Bunker Hill990 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.