Douglas County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,200 ft 365 m1,090 ft 335 m1,040 ft 315 m930 ft 285 m830 ft 250 m770 ft 235 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
Douglas County averages about 970 ft (295 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 770 ft on the northeast side to 1,200 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
970 ft 295 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,200 ft 365 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the northeast side
Douglas County spans about 430 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 | 970 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
21 mi south to north through Lawrence.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 121,989 2024 est.
- Land area
- 455.8 sq mi + 18.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 268 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
- Osage County1,090 ft
- Jefferson County1,020 ft
- Shawnee County1,010 ft
- Franklin County990 ft
- Johnson County990 ft
- Douglas County970 ft
- Leavenworth County940 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas92nd highest of 104
- Counties in the United States1,454th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Coon Point1,120 ft
- Twin Mounds, Douglas County1,110 ft
- Blue Mound, Douglas County1,056 ft
- Shank Hill1,000 ft
All 13 towns in Douglas County by typical elevation
- Marion Township, Douglas County1,050 ft
- Willow Springs Township1,050 ft
- Baldwin City1,050 ft
- Palmyra Township1,050 ft
- Kanwaka Township1,030 ft
- Lecompton Township980 ft
- Clinton Township980 ft
- Lecompton940 ft
- Lawrence890 ft
- Wakarusa Township880 ft
- Eudora Township870 ft
- Eudora870 ft
- Grant Township, Douglas County830 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.