Cherokee, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
950 ft 290 m940 ft 285 m930 ft 285 m920 ft 280 m910 ft 280 m910 ft 275 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
Cherokee sits at about 930 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
930 ft 280 m
most residents: 920–930 ft
Lowest
910 ft 275 m
on the west side
Highest
950 ft 290 m
on the southeast side
Average
930 ft 285 m
all land inside city limits
Cherokee 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 | 930 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 950 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 910 ft275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cherokee | 950 ft290 m |
| Airport (PTS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.2 mi northeast of the city limits | 946 ft288 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Crawford County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 596 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 723 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3459° N, 94.8089° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Neosho River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Atkinson Municipal (PTS) 946 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 66724
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sheridan Township930 ft
- Cherokee930 ft
- Weir920 ft
- Pittsburg920 ft
- Chicopee920 ft
- Cherokee Township, Cherokee County920 ft
- Roseland920 ft
- Mineral Township920 ft
- Scammon910 ft
- Baker Township910 ft
- Ross Township, Cherokee County900 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,819th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Crawford County16th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bell Mound930 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.