Great Bend, KS Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,900 ft 580 m1,880 ft 570 m1,870 ft 570 m1,850 ft 565 m1,830 ft 555 m1,820 ft 555 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
City area: Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Great Bend sits at about 1,850 ft (565 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,850 ft 565 m

most residents: 1,850–1,860 ft

Lowest

1,820 ft 555 m

on the east side

Highest

1,900 ft 580 m

on the west side

Average

1,860 ft 565 m

all land inside city limits

Great Bend spans about 80 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	1,850 ft565 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side	1,900 ft580 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side	1,820 ft555 m
Town center USGS map point for Great Bend	1,850 ft565 m
Airport (GBD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways	1,887 ft575 m
Average of all land	1,860 ft565 m

Elevation profile, west to east

4.5 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Barton County, Kansas, United States
Population: 14,306 2024 est.
Land area: 10.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
Density: 1,359 per sq mi
Coordinates: 38.3645° N, 98.7648° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Great Plains
Drains to: Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Great Bend Municipal (GBD) 1,887 ft
ZIP codes 1: 67530

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Kansas485th highest of 1,996
Towns in Barton County25th highest of 33

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).
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.