Carlton, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,340 ft 405 m1,320 ft 405 m1,320 ft 400 m1,310 ft 400 m1,300 ft 395 m1,290 ft 395 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
Carlton sits at about 1,320 ft (400 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside city limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,320 ft 400 m
few residents
Lowest
1,290 ft 395 m
on the west side
Highest
1,340 ft 405 m
on the east side
Average
1,320 ft 400 m
all land inside city limits
Carlton spans about 50 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,340 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Carlton | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Average of all land | 1,320 ft400 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dickinson County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 38 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 224 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6872° N, 97.2934° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 67448
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Logan Township, Marion County1,480 ft
- Banner Township, Dickinson County1,340 ft
- Holland Township1,330 ft
- Carlton1,320 ft
- Gypsum Township, Saline County1,290 ft
- Jefferson Township, Dickinson County1,270 ft
- Wheatland Township1,270 ft
- Eureka Township1,230 ft
- Gypsum1,230 ft
- Kipp1,220 ft
- Garfield Township, Dickinson County1,210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,146th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Dickinson County10th highest of 36
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Iron Mound1,498 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the city limits; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.