Doniphan County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,200 ft 365 m1,100 ft 335 m1,050 ft 320 m940 ft 285 m840 ft 255 m780 ft 240 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
Doniphan County averages about 990 ft (300 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 780 ft on the south side to 1,200 ft near the middle.
Average elevation
990 ft 300 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,200 ft 365 m
near the middle
Lowest
780 ft 240 m
on the south side
Doniphan County spans about 420 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 | 990 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, near the middle | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 780 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
25 mi west to east through Washington Township, Doniphan County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 7,575 2024 est.
- Land area
- 393.5 sq mi + 4.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 19 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Brown County1,090 ft
- Atchison County1,030 ft
- Richardson County, NE1,030 ft
- Doniphan County990 ft
- Andrew County, MO980 ft
- Holt County, MO940 ft
- Buchanan County, MO930 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas90th highest of 104
- Counties in the United States1,420th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Lookout Mountain1,190 ft
All 18 towns in Doniphan County by typical elevation
- Troy1,120 ft
- Bendena1,110 ft
- Center Township, Doniphan County1,110 ft
- Denton1,080 ft
- Independence Township, Doniphan County1,070 ft
- Union Township, Doniphan County1,070 ft
- Highland1,040 ft
- Iowa Township1,030 ft
- Burr Oak Township, Doniphan County1,010 ft
- Wayne Township, Doniphan County980 ft
- Wolf River Township980 ft
- White Cloud950 ft
- Marion Township, Doniphan County950 ft
- Leona930 ft
- Severance930 ft
- Wathena880 ft
- Washington Township, Doniphan County830 ft
- Elwood820 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.