Gray County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,890 ft 880 m2,800 ft 855 m2,750 ft 840 m2,670 ft 815 m2,580 ft 785 m2,540 ft 775 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
Gray County averages about 2,740 ft (835 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,540 ft on the southeast side to 2,890 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
2,740 ft 835 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,890 ft 880 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
2,540 ft 775 m
on the southeast side
Gray County spans about 350 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 | 2,740 ft835 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 2,890 ft880 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 2,540 ft775 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
36 mi south to north through Cimarron Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 5,730 2024 est.
- Land area
- 868.9 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 6.6 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
- Haskell County2,920 ft
- Finney County2,840 ft
- Gray County2,740 ft
- Meade County2,530 ft
- Ford County2,490 ft
- Hodgeman County2,380 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas19th highest of 104
- Counties in the United States429th highest of 3,151
All 11 towns in Gray County by typical elevation
- Copeland2,820 ft
- Copeland Township2,820 ft
- Logan Township, Gray County2,800 ft
- Montezuma2,780 ft
- Montezuma Township2,780 ft
- Ingalls Township2,730 ft
- Ensign2,720 ft
- East Hess Township2,720 ft
- Ingalls2,690 ft
- Cimarron2,660 ft
- Cimarron Township2,660 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, 2,530 ft at 37.4763° N, 100.2182° 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.