Finney County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,090 ft 940 m2,920 ft 890 m2,840 ft 865 m2,680 ft 815 m2,510 ft 765 m2,430 ft 740 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
Finney County averages about 2,840 ft (865 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,430 ft on the northeast side to 3,090 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
2,840 ft 865 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,090 ft 940 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
2,430 ft 740 m
on the northeast side
Finney 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 | 2,840 ft865 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 3,090 ft940 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 2,430 ft740 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Garden City.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 38,354 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,302.0 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 29 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 79%, Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 13%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Kearny County3,170 ft
- Scott County2,990 ft
- Haskell County2,920 ft
- Finney County2,840 ft
- Lane County2,760 ft
- Gray County2,740 ft
- Hodgeman County2,380 ft
- Ness County2,370 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas16th highest of 104
- Counties in the United States412th highest of 3,151
All 10 towns in Finney County by typical elevation
- Pleasant Valley Township, Finney County2,910 ft
- Terry Township2,900 ft
- Ivanhoe Township2,880 ft
- Sherlock Township2,880 ft
- Holcomb2,880 ft
- Garden City Township2,850 ft
- Garden City2,840 ft
- Pierceville Township2,840 ft
- Pierceville2,750 ft
- Garfield Township, Finney County2,690 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, 2,420 ft at 38.1510° N, 100.2257° 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.