City of Hays in Ellis County

 

Figure: Hays is situated in a small valley eroded into the Cretaceous bedrock and subsequently filled with Quaternary alluvium by Big Creek. Red lines are township boundaries, black E-W line is I-70 freeway, blue lines are major streams, including Big Creek along the southern Hays city limit. Shaded relief map (lit from the WNW) after http://gisdasc.kgs.ukans.edu/kanview/slope/html/Ellis.html.