Blue Rapids, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,350 ft 410 m1,290 ft 390 m1,250 ft 380 m1,190 ft 360 m1,120 ft 340 m1,090 ft 335 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
Blue Rapids sits at about 1,160 ft (350 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,160 ft 350 m
most residents: 1,140–1,180 ft
Lowest
1,090 ft 335 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,350 ft 410 m
on the south side
Average
1,160 ft 355 m
all land inside city limits
Blue Rapids spans about 260 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 | 1,160 ft350 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,090 ft335 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Blue Rapids | 1,160 ft350 m |
| Average of all land | 1,160 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Marshall County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 921 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 464 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6819° N, 96.6597° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Blue River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 66411
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cottage Hill Township1,380 ft
- Blue Rapids Township1,320 ft
- Walnut Township, Marshall County1,320 ft
- Swede Creek Township1,290 ft
- Wells Township1,280 ft
- Elm Creek Township, Marshall County1,270 ft
- Bigelow Township1,250 ft
- Waterville Township1,180 ft
- Waterville1,180 ft
- Blue Rapids City Township1,160 ft
- Blue Rapids1,160 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,419th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Marshall Countylowest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Mounds, Marshall County1,390 ft
- Indian Mound1,260 ft
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).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.