Union Township, Washington County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,610 ft 490 m1,560 ft 475 m1,530 ft 465 m1,480 ft 450 m1,420 ft 435 m1,390 ft 425 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, Washington County sits at about 1,600 ft (485 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,600 ft 485 m
most residents: 1,570–1,600 ft
Lowest
1,390 ft 425 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,610 ft 490 m
near the middle
Average
1,540 ft 470 m
all land inside township boundaries
Union Township, Washington County spans about 220 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 | 1,600 ft485 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Average of all land | 1,540 ft470 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Union Township, Washington County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Washington County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 61 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9837° N, 97.3504° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Mill Creek → Little Blue River → Big Blue 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
- Rose Creek Township1,630 ft
- Mahaska1,600 ft
- Union Township, Washington County1,600 ft
- Narka1,580 ft
- Albion Township, Republic County1,580 ft
- Farmington Township, Republic County1,540 ft
- Lowe Township1,520 ft
- Hubbell, NE1,460 ft
- Reynolds, NE1,410 ft
- Haddam Township1,400 ft
- Haddam1,390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas687th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Washington County2nd highest of 36
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.