Clay County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,510 ft 460 m1,420 ft 430 m1,370 ft 420 m1,280 ft 390 m1,190 ft 360 m1,140 ft 350 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Clay County averages about 1,290 ft (395 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,140 ft on the southeast side to 1,510 ft on the southwest side.

Average elevation

1,290 ft 395 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,510 ft 460 m

on the southwest side

Lowest

1,140 ft 350 m

on the southeast side

Clay 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	1,290 ft395 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side	1,510 ft460 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side	1,140 ft350 m

Elevation profile, south to north

30 mi south to north through Clay Center.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Kansas, United States
Population: 7,969 2024 est.
Land area: 645.3 sq mi + 10.3 sq mi water
Density: 12 per sq mi
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform regions: Great Plains 50%, Central Lowland 50%
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Cloud County1,440 ft
Washington County1,390 ft
Ottawa County1,340 ft
Clay County1,290 ft
Geary County1,270 ft
Dickinson County1,270 ft
Riley County1,250 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Kansas67th highest of 104
Counties in the United States1,015th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Table Mounds1,500 ft
Potato Hill, Clay County1,460 ft
Tobyne Hill1,420 ft
Twin Mounds, Clay County1,370 ft

All 9 towns in Clay County by typical elevation

Green1,390 ft
Longford1,360 ft
Clifton partly1,300 ft
Oak Hill1,280 ft
Vining1,270 ft
Idana1,270 ft
Clay Center1,240 ft
Wakefield1,240 ft
Morganville1,230 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.