Centralia, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,330 ft 405 m1,310 ft 400 m1,300 ft 395 m1,280 ft 390 m1,260 ft 385 m1,250 ft 380 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
Centralia sits at about 1,290 ft (395 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,290 ft 395 m
most residents: 1,270–1,310 ft
Lowest
1,250 ft 380 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,330 ft 405 m
on the north side
Average
1,280 ft 390 m
all land inside city limits
Centralia spans about 80 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 | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Centralia | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Average of all land | 1,280 ft390 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Nemaha County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 491 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,065 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7258° N, 96.1272° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Black Vermillion River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 66415
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Corning1,350 ft
- Illinois Township, Nemaha County1,340 ft
- Baileyville1,300 ft
- Center Township, Nemaha County1,300 ft
- Home Township1,290 ft
- Centralia1,290 ft
- Noble Township, Marshall County1,230 ft
- Kelly1,220 ft
- Vermillion1,210 ft
- Mitchell Township1,210 ft
- Seneca1,140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,201st highest of 1,996
- Towns in Nemaha County12th highest of 31
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.