Dorrance, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,760 ft 540 m1,750 ft 535 m1,740 ft 530 m1,730 ft 525 m1,710 ft 520 m1,700 ft 520 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
Dorrance sits at about 1,730 ft (525 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,730 ft 525 m
most residents: 1,720–1,740 ft
Lowest
1,700 ft 520 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,760 ft 540 m
on the north side
Average
1,730 ft 525 m
all land inside city limits
Dorrance spans about 60 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 | 1,730 ft525 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,760 ft540 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,700 ft520 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dorrance | 1,730 ft530 m |
| Average of all land | 1,730 ft525 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Russell County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 141 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 416 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8467° N, 98.5895° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 67634
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bunker Hill1,860 ft
- Center Township, Russell County1,840 ft
- Russell Township1,830 ft
- Grant Township, Russell County1,820 ft
- Dorrance1,730 ft
- Plymouth Township1,730 ft
- Columbia Township1,700 ft
- Wilson Township1,680 ft
- Wilson1,680 ft
- Noble Township, Ellsworth County1,680 ft
- Black Wolf Township1,610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas572nd highest of 1,996
- Towns in Russell County12th highest of 20
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).
- 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, 1,700 ft at 38.8424° N, 98.5946° 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.