Grant County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,220 ft 980 m3,120 ft 950 m3,070 ft 935 m2,970 ft 905 m2,870 ft 875 m2,820 ft 860 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
Grant County averages about 3,060 ft (935 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,820 ft on the southeast side to 3,220 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
3,060 ft 935 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,220 ft 980 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
2,820 ft 860 m
on the southeast side
Grant County spans about 400 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 | 3,060 ft935 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 3,220 ft980 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 2,820 ft860 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Ulysses.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 7,097 2024 est.
- Land area
- 574.8 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 12 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) 21%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Stanton County3,370 ft
- Kearny County3,170 ft
- Stevens County3,100 ft
- Grant County3,060 ft
- Haskell County2,920 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas13th highest of 104
- Counties in the United States374th highest of 3,151
The one town in Grant County
- Ulysses3,050 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.
- 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.