Weskan Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,040 ft 1,230 m3,900 ft 1,190 m3,830 ft 1,170 m3,700 ft 1,125 m3,560 ft 1,085 m3,490 ft 1,065 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
Weskan Township sits at about 3,840 ft (1,170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,840 ft 1,170 m
most residents: 3,720–3,900 ft
Lowest
3,490 ft 1,065 m
on the northeast side
Highest
4,040 ft 1,230 m
on Mount Sunflower
Average
3,810 ft 1,160 m
all land inside township boundaries
Weskan Township spans about 550 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 | 3,840 ft1,170 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Mount Sunflower | 4,040 ft1,230 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 3,490 ft1,065 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Weskan Township | 3,850 ft1,175 m |
| Average of all land | 3,810 ft1,160 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
12 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,840 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
204.9 °F96.0 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
87% of sea level
26.0 inHg (88.0 kPa): each breath holds 13% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.2% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+8% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Wallace County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 322 2024 est.
- Land area
- 302.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8667° N, 101.9643° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- 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
- Cheyenne Wells, CO4,290 ft
- Arapahoe, CO4,020 ft
- McPherson Township, Sherman County3,880 ft
- Weskan3,840 ft
- Weskan Township3,840 ft
- Greeley County unified government3,600 ft
- Harrison Township, Wallace County3,500 ft
- Sharon Springs Township3,460 ft
- Sharon Springs3,460 ft
- Wallace Township3,350 ft
- Wallace3,310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas5th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Wallace County2nd highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Sunflower4,040 ft
- Rock Hill, Wallace County3,900 ft
- Red Hills3,580 ft
- Motti Hill3,480 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).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.