Cheyenne County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,820 ft 1,165 m3,610 ft 1,100 m3,510 ft 1,070 m3,310 ft 1,010 m3,100 ft 945 m3,000 ft 915 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
Cheyenne County averages about 3,460 ft (1,055 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,000 ft on the northeast side to 3,820 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
3,460 ft 1,055 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,820 ft 1,165 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
3,000 ft 915 m
on the northeast side
Cheyenne County spans about 820 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 | 3,460 ft1,055 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 3,820 ft1,165 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 3,000 ft915 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
34 mi west to east through Wano Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 2,646 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,019.9 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.6 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Kit Carson County, CO4,420 ft
- Yuma County, CO3,920 ft
- Sherman County3,660 ft
- Cheyenne County3,460 ft
- Dundy County, NE3,300 ft
- Rawlins County3,070 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas3rd highest of 104
- Counties in the United States316th highest of 3,151
All 9 towns in Cheyenne County by typical elevation
- Jaqua Township3,630 ft
- Benkelman Township3,590 ft
- Bird City3,470 ft
- Bird City Township3,470 ft
- Orlando Township3,460 ft
- Cleveland Run Township3,440 ft
- Wano Township3,330 ft
- St. Francis3,330 ft
- Calhoun Township3,250 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.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 3,000 ft at 40.0024° N, 101.5365° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.