Bourbon County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,120 ft 340 m1,030 ft 315 m980 ft 300 m890 ft 270 m800 ft 245 m750 ft 230 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
Bourbon County averages about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 750 ft on the east side to 1,120 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
920 ft 280 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the east side
Bourbon County spans about 370 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 750 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
25 mi west to east through Fort Scott.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 14,424 2024 est.
- Land area
- 635.5 sq mi + 3.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 23 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
- Allen County1,020 ft
- Neosho County950 ft
- Crawford County940 ft
- Linn County920 ft
- Bourbon County920 ft
- Vernon County, MO830 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas100th highest of 104
- Counties in the United States1,554th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Guthrie Mountain1,010 ft
All 19 towns in Bourbon County by typical elevation
- Bronson1,070 ft
- Franklin Township, Bourbon County1,020 ft
- Walnut Township, Bourbon County970 ft
- Pawnee Township, Bourbon County960 ft
- Marion Township920 ft
- Mill Creek Township, Bourbon County900 ft
- Uniontown900 ft
- Mapleton880 ft
- Timberhill Township880 ft
- Drywood Township880 ft
- Marmaton Township, Bourbon County870 ft
- Garland870 ft
- Scott Township870 ft
- Devon870 ft
- Osage Township, Bourbon County860 ft
- Redfield860 ft
- Freedom Township860 ft
- Fort Scott850 ft
- Fulton840 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.
- 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.