Western Township, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,480 ft 1,060 m3,360 ft 1,025 m3,290 ft 1,005 m3,170 ft 965 m3,050 ft 930 m2,990 ft 910 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
Western Township sits at about 3,220 ft (980 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside township boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
3,220 ft 980 m
few residents
Lowest
2,990 ft 910 m
on the east side
Highest
3,480 ft 1,060 m
on the southwest side
Average
3,230 ft 985 m
all land inside township boundaries
Western Township spans about 490 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 | 3,220 ft980 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 3,480 ft1,060 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 2,990 ft910 m |
| Average of all land | 3,230 ft985 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the middle of Western Township.
Altitude Effects
What 3,220 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.0 °F96.7 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.6 inHg (90.1 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.6% 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 Logan County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 48 2024 est.
- Land area
- 107.6 sq mi
- Density
- 0.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9205° N, 101.4153° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- 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
- Harrison Township, Wallace County3,500 ft
- Sharon Springs Township3,460 ft
- Wallace Township3,350 ft
- Augustine Township3,340 ft
- Winona3,320 ft
- Winona Township3,320 ft
- Wallace3,310 ft
- McAllaster Township3,250 ft
- Western Township3,220 ft
- Russell Springs Township2,940 ft
- Russell Springs2,920 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas57th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Logan County5th highest of 15
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Red Hills3,580 ft
- Motti Hill3,480 ft
- Twin Butte3,380 ft
- Lone Butte3,220 ft
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.