Bird City, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,490 ft 1,065 m3,480 ft 1,060 m3,470 ft 1,060 m3,460 ft 1,055 m3,450 ft 1,050 m3,450 ft 1,050 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Bird City sits at about 3,470 ft (1,060 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,470 ft 1,060 m
most residents: 3,460–3,480 ft
Lowest
3,450 ft 1,050 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,490 ft 1,065 m
on the southwest side
Average
3,470 ft 1,060 m
all land inside city limits
Bird City 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 | 3,470 ft1,060 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 3,490 ft1,065 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 3,450 ft1,050 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bird City | 3,460 ft1,055 m |
| Average of all land | 3,470 ft1,060 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,470 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.6 °F96.4 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.4 inHg (89.2 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cheyenne County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 448 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.3 sq mi
- Density
- 198 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7508° N, 101.5329° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Little Beaver Creek → Beaver Creek → Republican River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 67731
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bird City3,470 ft
- Bird City Township3,470 ft
- Orlando Township3,460 ft
- Cleveland Run Township3,440 ft
- Llanos Township3,440 ft
- McDonald3,370 ft
- Wano Township3,330 ft
- Rocewood Township3,330 ft
- St. Francis3,330 ft
- Mirage Township3,250 ft
- Calhoun Township3,250 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas21st highest of 1,996
- Towns in Cheyenne County3rd highest of 9
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, 3,440 ft at 39.7560° N, 101.5251° 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.