Clayton, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,540 ft 775 m2,500 ft 760 m2,480 ft 755 m2,440 ft 745 m2,400 ft 735 m2,380 ft 725 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
Clayton sits at about 2,420 ft (740 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside city limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,420 ft 740 m
few residents
Lowest
2,380 ft 725 m
on the north side
Highest
2,540 ft 775 m
on the southeast side
Average
2,440 ft 740 m
all land inside city limits
Clayton spans about 160 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 | 2,420 ft740 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 2,540 ft775 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 2,380 ft725 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Clayton | 2,420 ft740 m |
| Average of all land | 2,440 ft740 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Norton County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 42 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 100 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7375° N, 100.1776° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Prairie Dog Creek → Republican River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 67629
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Altory Township2,650 ft
- Lincoln Township, Decatur County2,630 ft
- Norcatur2,630 ft
- Roosevelt Township2,610 ft
- Allison Township2,590 ft
- Garfield Township, Decatur County2,560 ft
- Pleasant Valley Township, Decatur County2,530 ft
- Jennings Township2,510 ft
- Jennings2,500 ft
- Clayton2,420 ft
- Highland-District 2 Township2,340 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas236th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Norton Countyhighest of 9
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).
- 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, 2,380 ft at 39.7415° N, 100.1796° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.