Sherman Township, Ottawa County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,540 ft 470 m1,490 ft 455 m1,460 ft 445 m1,400 ft 425 m1,340 ft 410 m1,310 ft 400 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
Sherman Township, Ottawa County sits at about 1,420 ft (435 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,420 ft 435 m
few residents
Lowest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,540 ft 470 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,420 ft 430 m
all land inside township boundaries
Sherman Township, Ottawa County spans about 230 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Average of all land | 1,420 ft430 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Sherman Township, Ottawa County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Ottawa County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 41 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2662° N, 97.5414° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Solomon River → Smoky Hill River → Kansas 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
- Meredith Township1,490 ft
- Oakland Township1,480 ft
- Sherman Township, Ottawa County1,420 ft
- Durham Township1,400 ft
- Starr Township1,400 ft
- Miltonvale1,400 ft
- Chapman Township1,400 ft
- Grant Township, Ottawa County1,380 ft
- Wells1,370 ft
- Logan Township, Ottawa County1,360 ft
- Blaine Township1,290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas937th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Ottawa County2nd highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Mounds, Cloud County1,520 ft
- Table Mounds1,500 ft
- Potato Hill, Clay County1,460 ft
- Tobyne Hill1,420 ft
- Twin Mounds, Clay County1,370 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the township boundaries; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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, 1,310 ft at 39.2407° N, 97.5918° 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.