Glen Elder, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,510 ft 460 m1,480 ft 450 m1,460 ft 445 m1,430 ft 435 m1,410 ft 430 m1,390 ft 425 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Glen Elder sits at about 1,420 ft (435 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,420 ft 435 m
most residents: 1,420–1,470 ft
Lowest
1,390 ft 425 m
on the south side
Highest
1,510 ft 460 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,440 ft 435 m
all land inside city limits
Glen Elder spans about 120 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Glen Elder | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Average of all land | 1,440 ft435 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Mitchell County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 363 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 833 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4986° N, 98.3087° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Solomon River → Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 67446
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Browns Creek Township1,540 ft
- Athens Township1,510 ft
- Carr Creek Township1,510 ft
- Walnut Creek Township1,510 ft
- Cawker Township1,490 ft
- Cawker City1,490 ft
- Turkey Creek Township, Mitchell County1,480 ft
- Solomon Rapids Township1,470 ft
- Glen Elder Township1,420 ft
- Glen Elder1,420 ft
- Beloit Township1,390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas933rd highest of 1,996
- Towns in Mitchell County20th highest of 25
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (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, 1,390 ft at 39.4957° N, 98.3079° 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).
- 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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.