Scranton Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,240 ft 380 m1,170 ft 360 m1,140 ft 350 m1,080 ft 330 m1,010 ft 310 m980 ft 295 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
Scranton Township sits at about 1,120 ft (340 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,120 ft 340 m
most residents: 1,090–1,140 ft
Lowest
980 ft 295 m
on the north side
Highest
1,240 ft 380 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,110 ft 340 m
all land inside township boundaries
Scranton Township spans about 260 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 | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,240 ft380 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 980 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Scranton Township | 1,120 ft345 m |
| Average of all land | 1,110 ft340 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Osage County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 1,112 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.6 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 31 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7817° N, 95.7386° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Marais des Cygnes River → Osage River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Elk Township1,190 ft
- Scranton1,120 ft
- Scranton Township1,120 ft
- Burlingame Township1,110 ft
- Ridgeway Township1,110 ft
- Carbondale1,100 ft
- Burlingame1,090 ft
- Superior Township, Osage County1,080 ft
- Fairfax Township1,070 ft
- Dragoon Township1,060 ft
- Wakarusa1,000 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,488th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Osage County8th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stenger Hill1,230 ft
- Elkhorn Knob1,200 ft
- Burnett Mound1,142 ft
- Twin Mounds, Douglas County1,110 ft
- Hickory Knob1,020 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.