Greeley County unified government, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,950 ft 1,205 m3,810 ft 1,165 m3,740 ft 1,140 m3,610 ft 1,100 m3,470 ft 1,055 m3,400 ft 1,035 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Greeley County unified government sits at about 3,600 ft (1,100 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,600 ft 1,100 m
most residents: 3,510–3,790 ft
Lowest
3,400 ft 1,035 m
on the east side
Highest
3,950 ft 1,205 m
on the northwest side
Average
3,670 ft 1,120 m
all land inside city limits
Greeley County unified government spans about 550 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 | 3,600 ft1,100 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 3,950 ft1,205 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 3,400 ft1,035 m |
| Airport (5K2) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 3,610 ft1,100 m |
| Average of all land | 3,670 ft1,120 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
25 mi west to east through the middle of Greeley County unified government.
Altitude Effects
What 3,600 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.3 °F96.3 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.2 inHg (88.8 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.4% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Consolidated city and county in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 370 2024 est.
- Land area
- 777.4 sq mi
- Density
- 0.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.5165° N, 101.7432° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- White Woman Creek → Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Tribune Municipal (5K2) 3,610 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 67762 67879
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Towner, CO3,930 ft
- Weskan3,840 ft
- Weskan Township3,840 ft
- Horace3,640 ft
- Greeley County unified government3,600 ft
- Harrison Township, Wallace County3,500 ft
- Sharon Springs Township3,460 ft
- Sharon Springs3,460 ft
- Wallace Township3,350 ft
- Augustine Township3,340 ft
- Leoti3,300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas13th highest of 1,996
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rock Hill, Wallace County3,900 ft
- Twin Butte3,380 ft
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, 3,390 ft at 38.4871° N, 101.5685° 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.