West Branch Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,570 ft 480 m1,540 ft 470 m1,530 ft 465 m1,510 ft 460 m1,480 ft 450 m1,470 ft 450 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
West Branch Township sits at about 1,530 ft (470 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,530 ft 470 m
most residents: 1,520–1,540 ft
Lowest
1,470 ft 450 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,570 ft 480 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,530 ft 465 m
all land inside township boundaries
West Branch Township spans about 100 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 | 1,530 ft470 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,470 ft450 m |
| Airport (47K) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.1 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,489 ft454 m |
| Average of all land | 1,530 ft465 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of West Branch Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Marion County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 1,009 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.5 sq mi
- Density
- 28 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.2384° N, 97.3439° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Little Arkansas River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Moundridge Municipal (47K) 1,489 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Spring Valley Township, McPherson County1,540 ft
- Goessel1,540 ft
- West Branch Township1,530 ft
- Lehigh Township1,530 ft
- Menno Township1,520 ft
- Meridian Township1,510 ft
- Highland Township1,500 ft
- East Branch Township1,480 ft
- Hesston1,470 ft
- Emma Township1,470 ft
- Liberty Township, Marion County1,400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas755th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Marion County2nd highest of 31
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, 1,470 ft at 38.2599° N, 97.2690° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.