Edson, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,590 ft 1,095 m3,590 ft 1,095 m3,580 ft 1,090 m3,570 ft 1,090 m3,570 ft 1,085 m3,560 ft 1,085 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Edson sits at about 3,570 ft (1,090 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
3,570 ft 1,090 m
few residents
Lowest
3,560 ft 1,085 m
on the south side
Highest
3,580 ft 1,090 m
on the west side
Average
3,570 ft 1,090 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Edson is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 3,570 ft1,090 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 3,580 ft1,090 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 3,560 ft1,085 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Edson | 3,570 ft1,085 m |
| Airport (GLD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi west of the CDP boundary | 3,658 ft1,115 m |
| Average of all land | 3,570 ft1,090 m |
Altitude Effects
What 3,570 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.4 °F96.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.3 inHg (88.9 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.4% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sherman County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 17 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 24 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3372° N, 101.5404° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- South Fork Sappa Creek → Sappa Creek → Republican River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Renner Field/Goodland Municipal (GLD) 3,658 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 67733
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Logan Township, Sherman County3,700 ft
- Itasca Township3,700 ft
- Goodland3,690 ft
- Voltaire Township3,580 ft
- Edson3,570 ft
- Washington Township, Sherman County3,570 ft
- Llanos Township3,440 ft
- Brewster3,430 ft
- West Hale Township3,430 ft
- Barrett Township3,350 ft
- Kingery Township3,350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas16th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Sherman County9th highest of 11
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; 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 CDP boundary (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, 3,560 ft at 39.3329° N, 101.5524° 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.
- Edson is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.