Sherman Township, Riley County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,370 ft 420 m1,300 ft 395 m1,260 ft 385 m1,190 ft 360 m1,110 ft 340 m1,070 ft 330 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, Riley County sits at about 1,290 ft (395 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,290 ft 395 m
most residents: 1,230–1,320 ft
Lowest
1,070 ft 330 m
on the north side
Highest
1,370 ft 420 m
on the west side
Average
1,270 ft 385 m
all land inside township boundaries
Sherman Township, Riley County spans about 300 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 | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,370 ft420 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,070 ft330 m |
| Airport (MHK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,066 ft325 m |
| Average of all land | 1,270 ft385 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.4 mi west to east through the middle of Sherman Township, Riley County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Riley County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 583 2024 est.
- Land area
- 29.4 sq mi + 2.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 20 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3610° N, 96.7190° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Manhattan Regional (MHK) 1,066 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Olsburg1,420 ft
- Blue Valley Township1,410 ft
- Leonardville1,380 ft
- Green Township1,310 ft
- Riley1,290 ft
- Sherman Township, Riley County1,290 ft
- Wildcat Township1,280 ft
- Jackson Township, Riley County1,250 ft
- Randolph1,250 ft
- Grant Township, Riley County1,190 ft
- Keats1,130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,196th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Riley County8th highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Ephraim1,310 ft
- Stagg Hill1,240 ft
- Prospect Hill1,200 ft
- Rock Hill, Riley County1,190 ft
- Longview Hill1,190 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.