Union Township, Barton County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,990 ft 605 m1,950 ft 595 m1,930 ft 590 m1,890 ft 575 m1,850 ft 565 m1,830 ft 555 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
Union Township, Barton County sits at about 1,960 ft (595 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,960 ft 595 m
most residents: 1,900–1,970 ft
Lowest
1,830 ft 555 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,990 ft 605 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,930 ft 585 m
all land inside township boundaries
Union Township, Barton County spans about 160 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 | 1,960 ft595 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,990 ft605 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,830 ft555 m |
| Average of all land | 1,930 ft585 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Union Township, Barton County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Barton County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 90 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6596° N, 98.7660° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- 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
- Galatia2,000 ft
- Susank1,970 ft
- Union Township, Barton County1,960 ft
- Wheatland Township, Barton County1,930 ft
- Beaver1,930 ft
- Beaver Township, Barton County1,910 ft
- Albion Township, Barton County1,880 ft
- North Homestead Township1,880 ft
- Lincoln Township, Russell County1,850 ft
- Hoisington1,840 ft
- Fairfield Township1,840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas412th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Barton County6th highest of 33
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. All public domain.