Atchison County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m1,070 ft 330 m1,020 ft 310 m920 ft 280 m820 ft 250 m770 ft 235 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Atchison County averages about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 770 ft on the southeast side to 1,180 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the southeast side
Atchison County spans about 410 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 | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Atchison.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 16,249 2024 est.
- Land area
- 431.2 sq mi + 2.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 38 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Jackson County1,120 ft
- Brown County1,090 ft
- Atchison County1,030 ft
- Jefferson County1,020 ft
- Doniphan County990 ft
- Leavenworth County940 ft
- Buchanan County, MO930 ft
- Platte County, MO900 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas85th highest of 104
- Counties in the United States1,348th highest of 3,151
All 13 towns in Atchison County by typical elevation
- Huron1,160 ft
- Lancaster1,150 ft
- Lancaster Township1,130 ft
- Effingham1,120 ft
- Benton Township, Atchison County1,110 ft
- Center Township, Atchison County1,060 ft
- Mount Pleasant Township, Atchison County1,030 ft
- Grasshopper Township1,020 ft
- Muscotah1,010 ft
- Kapioma Township1,000 ft
- Shannon Township990 ft
- Walnut Township, Atchison County960 ft
- Atchison910 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 770 ft at 39.4249° N, 94.9801° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties 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 county 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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.