Geary County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,550 ft 470 m1,420 ft 430 m1,350 ft 410 m1,220 ft 370 m1,090 ft 335 m1,030 ft 315 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

Geary County averages about 1,270 ft (390 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,030 ft near the middle to 1,550 ft on the southeast side.

Average elevation

1,270 ft 390 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,550 ft 470 m

on the southeast side

Lowest

1,030 ft 315 m

near the middle

Geary County spans about 520 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	1,270 ft390 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side	1,550 ft470 m
Lowest point Inside the county, near the middle	1,030 ft315 m

Elevation profile, west to east

25 mi west to east through Junction City.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Kansas, United States
Population: 35,459 2024 est.
Land area: 384.7 sq mi + 19.9 sq mi water
Density: 92 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

Morris County1,400 ft
Clay County1,290 ft
Geary County1,270 ft
Dickinson County1,270 ft
Wabaunsee County1,250 ft
Riley County1,250 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Kansas68th highest of 104
Counties in the United States1,025th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Franks Hill1,320 ft
Machine Gun Ridge1,310 ft
Grand View Hill1,290 ft
Macomb Hill1,290 ft

All 12 towns in Geary 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.