Kansas Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,040 ft 1,230 m3,200 ft 975 m2,780 ft 845 m1,940 ft 590 m1,100 ft 335 m680 ft 205 m
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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.
- State area
- Fades everything outside the official state boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Kansas averages about 1,920 ft (585 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 680 ft on the southeast side to 4,040 ft on Mount Sunflower.
Average elevation
1,920 ft 585 m
all land in Kansas
Highest
4,040 ft 1,230 m
on Mount Sunflower
Lowest
680 ft 205 m
on the southeast side
Kansas spans about 3,360 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,920 ft585 m |
| Highest point In Kansas, on Mount Sunflower (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 4,040 ft1,230 m |
| Lowest point In Kansas, on the southeast side | 680 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
406 mi west to east through Wichita.
Topographic Map
- Location
- State in the West North Central division of the Midwest region, United States
- Population
- 2,970,606 2024 est.
- Land area
- 81,758.8 sq mi + 519.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 36 per sq mi
- Counties
- 104
- Time zones
- Central UTC−6 / −5, Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Great Plains 61%, Central Lowland 39%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 94%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring states sharing a border, by average
Rankings by average elevation
- States in the United States15th highest of 52
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Sunflower4,040 ft
- Rock Hill, Wallace County3,900 ft
- Red Hills3,580 ft
- Motti Hill3,480 ft
- Twin Butte3,380 ft
All 104 counties by average elevation
- Sherman County3,660 ft
- Wallace County3,620 ft
- Cheyenne County3,460 ft
- Hamilton County3,450 ft
- Morton County3,440 ft
- Stanton County3,370 ft
- Wichita County3,300 ft
- Thomas County3,180 ft
- Kearny County3,170 ft
- Stevens County3,100 ft
- Logan County3,100 ft
- Rawlins County3,070 ft
- Grant County3,060 ft
- Scott County2,990 ft
- Haskell County2,920 ft
- Finney County2,840 ft
- Seward County2,810 ft
- Lane County2,760 ft
- Gray County2,740 ft
- Sheridan County2,740 ft
- Gove County2,680 ft
- Decatur County2,660 ft
- Meade County2,530 ft
- Ford County2,490 ft
- Hodgeman County2,380 ft
- Ness County2,370 ft
- Norton County2,350 ft
- Graham County2,350 ft
- Trego County2,340 ft
- Kiowa County2,190 ft
- Edwards County2,170 ft
- Clark County2,160 ft
- Pawnee County2,080 ft
- Rush County2,080 ft
- Ellis County2,040 ft
- Phillips County2,020 ft
- Rooks County2,010 ft
- Comanche County1,940 ft
- Pratt County1,930 ft
- Stafford County1,890 ft
- Barton County1,880 ft
- Smith County1,820 ft
- Russell County1,750 ft
- Osborne County1,740 ft
- Rice County1,690 ft
- Ellsworth County1,670 ft
- Jewell County1,660 ft
- Barber County1,640 ft
- Reno County1,600 ft
- Kingman County1,580 ft
- Republic County1,520 ft
- Mitchell County1,510 ft
- Lincoln County1,500 ft
- McPherson County1,490 ft
- Cloud County1,440 ft
- Harvey County1,440 ft
- Marion County1,430 ft
- Morris County1,400 ft
- Butler County1,390 ft
- Washington County1,390 ft
- Harper County1,370 ft
- Chase County1,370 ft
- Sedgwick County1,360 ft
- Ottawa County1,340 ft
- Saline County1,320 ft
- Marshall County1,300 ft
- Clay County1,290 ft
- Geary County1,270 ft
- Dickinson County1,270 ft
- Cowley County1,260 ft
- Wabaunsee County1,250 ft
- Nemaha County1,250 ft
- Riley County1,250 ft
- Sumner County1,230 ft
- Pottawatomie County1,220 ft
- Lyon County1,210 ft
- Greenwood County1,180 ft
- Jackson County1,120 ft
- Elk County1,120 ft
- Coffey County1,100 ft
- Osage County1,090 ft
- Brown County1,090 ft
- Anderson County1,040 ft
- Woodson County1,040 ft
- Atchison County1,030 ft
- Jefferson County1,020 ft
- Allen County1,020 ft
- Shawnee County1,010 ft
- Franklin County990 ft
- Doniphan County990 ft
- Johnson County990 ft
- Douglas County970 ft
- Miami County970 ft
- Chautauqua County970 ft
- Neosho County950 ft
- Crawford County940 ft
- Leavenworth County940 ft
- Wilson County920 ft
- Linn County920 ft
- Bourbon County920 ft
- Wyandotte County890 ft
- Labette County870 ft
- Cherokee County870 ft
- Montgomery County830 ft
All 4 tribal lands by average elevation
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census state boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 7 arc-second (≈710 ft, 216 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring states and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the state with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Counties: each one's average on its own grid (1 arc-second, coarser for the largest), the same figure its own page shows.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.