Union Township, Rawlins County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,090 ft 945 m3,030 ft 920 m2,990 ft 910 m2,920 ft 890 m2,860 ft 870 m2,820 ft 860 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, Rawlins County sits at about 3,000 ft (915 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
3,000 ft 915 m
few residents
Lowest
2,820 ft 860 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,090 ft 945 m
on the southwest side
Average
3,000 ft 915 m
all land inside township boundaries
Union Township, Rawlins County spans about 270 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 | 3,000 ft915 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 3,090 ft945 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,820 ft860 m |
| Airport (ADT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi west of the township boundaries | 2,991 ft912 m |
| Average of all land | 3,000 ft915 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Union Township, Rawlins County.
Altitude Effects
What 3,000 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.4 °F96.9 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
90% of sea level
26.8 inHg (90.8 kPa): each breath holds 10% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.8% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+6% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Rawlins County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 33 2024 est.
- Land area
- 43.0 sq mi
- Density
- 0.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8057° N, 100.9138° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Beaver Creek → Republican River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Atwood/Rawlins County (ADT) 2,991 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Center Township, Rawlins County3,050 ft
- Union Township, Rawlins County3,000 ft
- Achilles Township2,880 ft
- Atwood Township2,860 ft
- Atwood2,860 ft
- Logan Township, Decatur County2,800 ft
- Ludell Township2,790 ft
- Ludell2,770 ft
- Sappa Township2,760 ft
- Herl Township2,760 ft
- Herndon2,670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas84th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Rawlins County6th highest of 14
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).
- 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.