Belle Plaine, KS Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,230 ft 375 m1,220 ft 370 m1,220 ft 370 m1,210 ft 370 m1,200 ft 365 m1,190 ft 365 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Belle Plaine sits at about 1,220 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,220 ft 370 m

most residents: 1,210–1,220 ft

Lowest

1,190 ft 365 m

on the south side

Highest

1,230 ft 375 m

on the north side

Average

1,220 ft 370 m

all land inside city limits

Belle Plaine spans about 40 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	1,220 ft370 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side	1,230 ft375 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side	1,190 ft365 m
Town center USGS map point for Belle Plaine	1,220 ft375 m
Airport (EGT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.7 mi southwest of the city limits	1,277 ft389 m
Average of all land	1,220 ft370 m

Elevation profile, south to north

1.7 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Sumner County, Kansas, United States
Population: 1,445 2024 est.
Land area: 0.9 sq mi
Density: 1,692 per sq mi
Coordinates: 37.3939° N, 97.2812° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Wellington Municipal (EGT) 1,277 ft
ZIP codes 1: 67013

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Seventy-Six Township1,280 ft
Ninnescah Township, Cowley County1,280 ft
Mulvane1,270 ft
Harmon Township1,270 ft
Peck1,260 ft
London Township1,250 ft
Gore Township1,250 ft
Belle Plaine Township1,220 ft
Belle Plaine1,220 ft
Avon Township1,210 ft
Palestine Township1,180 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Kansas1,323rd highest of 1,996
Towns in Sumner County23rd highest of 43

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, 1,190 ft at 37.3899° N, 97.2846° 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.