Atwood, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,020 ft 920 m2,970 ft 905 m2,950 ft 900 m2,900 ft 885 m2,850 ft 870 m2,830 ft 860 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Atwood sits at about 2,860 ft (870 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,860 ft 870 m
most residents: 2,850–2,900 ft
Lowest
2,830 ft 860 m
on the north side
Highest
3,020 ft 920 m
on the southeast side
Average
2,870 ft 875 m
all land inside city limits
Atwood spans about 190 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 | 2,860 ft870 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 3,020 ft920 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 2,830 ft860 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Atwood | 2,850 ft870 m |
| Airport (ADT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.1 mi north of the city limits | 2,991 ft912 m |
| Average of all land | 2,870 ft875 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Rawlins County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 1,223 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,151 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8067° N, 101.0421° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Beaver Creek → Republican River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Atwood/Rawlins County (ADT) 2,991 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 67730
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mirage Township3,250 ft
- Center Township, Rawlins County3,050 ft
- Driftwood Township3,050 ft
- Union Township, Rawlins County3,000 ft
- Achilles Township2,880 ft
- Atwood Township2,860 ft
- Atwood2,860 ft
- Ludell Township2,790 ft
- Ludell2,770 ft
- Herl Township2,760 ft
- Herndon2,670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas117th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Rawlins County10th highest of 14
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, 2,830 ft at 39.8199° N, 101.0404° 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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.