Smoky Hill Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,240 ft 375 m1,200 ft 365 m1,140 ft 345 m1,070 ft 325 m1,030 ft 315 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
Smoky Hill Township sits at about 1,150 ft (350 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,150 ft 350 m
most residents: 1,070–1,250 ft
Lowest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the east side
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the east side
Average
1,170 ft 355 m
all land inside township boundaries
Smoky Hill Township spans about 280 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 | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Airport (MHK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 1,066 ft325 m |
| Average of all land | 1,170 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
11 mi west to east through the middle of Smoky Hill Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Geary County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 8,945 2024 est.
- Land area
- 54.0 sq mi + 7.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 166 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0707° N, 96.8277° 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
- Wingfield Township1,300 ft
- Madison Township1,290 ft
- Fort Riley1,290 ft
- Milford Township1,210 ft
- Milford1,210 ft
- Junction City1,180 ft
- Smoky Hill Township1,150 ft
- Jefferson Township1,130 ft
- Grandview Plaza1,120 ft
- Ogden Township1,060 ft
- Ogden1,050 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,430th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Geary County9th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Harvey Hill1,330 ft
- Ogden Hill1,310 ft
- Machine Gun Ridge1,310 ft
- Artillery Hill1,300 ft
- Macomb Hill1,290 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.