Voltaire Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,740 ft 1,140 m3,660 ft 1,115 m3,620 ft 1,105 m3,540 ft 1,080 m3,460 ft 1,055 m3,420 ft 1,045 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Voltaire Township sits at about 3,580 ft (1,090 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,580 ft 1,090 m
most residents: 3,550–3,660 ft
Lowest
3,420 ft 1,045 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,740 ft 1,140 m
on the southwest side
Average
3,620 ft 1,100 m
all land inside township boundaries
Voltaire Township spans about 320 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 | 3,580 ft1,090 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 3,740 ft1,140 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 3,420 ft1,045 m |
| Airport (GLD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.2 mi south of the township boundaries | 3,658 ft1,115 m |
| Average of all land | 3,620 ft1,100 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
12 mi west to east through the middle of Voltaire Township.
Altitude Effects
What 3,580 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.3 °F96.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.2 inHg (88.9 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.4% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Sherman County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 226 2024 est.
- Land area
- 158.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4526° N, 101.7164° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Beaver Creek → Republican River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Renner Field/Goodland Municipal (GLD) 3,658 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kanorado3,910 ft
- Stateline Township3,910 ft
- Grant Township, Sherman County3,830 ft
- Logan Township, Sherman County3,700 ft
- Itasca Township3,700 ft
- Goodland3,690 ft
- Voltaire Township3,580 ft
- Edson3,570 ft
- Washington Township, Sherman County3,570 ft
- Llanos Township3,440 ft
- Brewster3,430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas15th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Sherman County8th highest of 11
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).
- 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.