Union Township, Jefferson County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,200 ft 365 m1,120 ft 345 m1,090 ft 330 m1,020 ft 310 m950 ft 290 m910 ft 280 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
Union Township, Jefferson County 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: 1,050–1,180 ft
Lowest
910 ft 280 m
on the north side
Highest
1,200 ft 365 m
near the middle
Average
1,090 ft 330 m
all land inside township boundaries
Union Township, Jefferson County spans about 290 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, near the middle | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 910 ft280 m |
| Average of all land | 1,090 ft330 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
10 mi south to north through the middle of Union Township, Jefferson County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jefferson County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 1,647 2024 est.
- Land area
- 42.1 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 39 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2025° N, 95.2096° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Stranger Creek → 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
- Winchester1,170 ft
- McLouth1,170 ft
- Union Township, Jefferson County1,150 ft
- Jefferson Township, Jefferson County1,150 ft
- Oskaloosa1,110 ft
- Oskaloosa Township1,100 ft
- Sarcoxie Township1,040 ft
- Rural Township990 ft
- Alexandria Township990 ft
- Tonganoxie Township910 ft
- Tonganoxie900 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,427th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Jefferson County3rd highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Coon Point1,120 ft
- Pilot Knob, Leavenworth County1,105 ft
- Government Hill1,070 ft
- Sentinel Hill1,050 ft
- Nolan Hill1,050 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).
- 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, 910 ft at 39.2815° N, 95.1807° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.