Ellis County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,350 ft 720 m2,190 ft 665 m2,100 ft 640 m1,940 ft 590 m1,770 ft 540 m1,690 ft 515 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
Ellis County averages about 2,040 ft (625 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,690 ft on the northeast side to 2,350 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
2,040 ft 625 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,350 ft 720 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
1,690 ft 515 m
on the northeast side
Ellis County spans about 660 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 | 2,040 ft625 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 2,350 ft720 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,690 ft515 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
30 mi west to east through Hays.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 29,007 2024 est.
- Land area
- 899.9 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 32 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Ness County2,370 ft
- Trego County2,340 ft
- Rush County2,080 ft
- Ellis County2,040 ft
- Rooks County2,010 ft
- Russell County1,750 ft
- Osborne County1,740 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas35th highest of 104
- Counties in the United States609th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Blue Hills2,140 ft
All 10 towns in Ellis County by typical elevation
- Ellis2,130 ft
- Buckeye Township2,130 ft
- Hays2,020 ft
- Catharine2,010 ft
- Big Creek Township2,010 ft
- Freedom Township, Ellis County1,940 ft
- Munjor1,940 ft
- Victoria1,930 ft
- Herzog Township1,930 ft
- Schoenchen1,920 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.
- 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, 1,690 ft at 39.0407° N, 99.0393° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.