Ford County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

2,750 ft 840 m2,620 ft 800 m2,560 ft 780 m2,430 ft 740 m2,310 ft 705 m2,240 ft 685 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Ford County averages about 2,490 ft (760 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,240 ft on the northeast side to 2,750 ft on the west side.

Average elevation

2,490 ft 760 m

all land inside the county

Highest

2,750 ft 840 m

on the west side

Lowest

2,240 ft 685 m

on the northeast side

Ford County spans about 510 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	2,490 ft760 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the west side	2,750 ft840 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side	2,240 ft685 m

Elevation profile, west to east

36 mi west to east through Dodge City.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Kansas, United States
Population: 34,072 2024 est.
Land area: 1,098.3 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
Density: 31 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

Gray County2,740 ft
Meade County2,530 ft
Ford County2,490 ft
Hodgeman County2,380 ft
Kiowa County2,190 ft
Edwards County2,170 ft
Clark County2,160 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Kansas24th highest of 104
Counties in the United States489th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Boot Hill2,620 ft
Pullers Peak2,450 ft

All 21 towns in Ford County by typical elevation

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.