Hamilton County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,850 ft 1,175 m3,670 ft 1,120 m3,580 ft 1,090 m3,400 ft 1,035 m3,210 ft 980 m3,120 ft 950 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
Hamilton County averages about 3,450 ft (1,050 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,120 ft on the east side to 3,850 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
3,450 ft 1,050 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,850 ft 1,175 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
3,120 ft 950 m
on the east side
Hamilton County spans about 730 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 | 3,450 ft1,050 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 3,850 ft1,175 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 3,120 ft950 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
36 mi south to north through Syracuse.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 2,488 2024 est.
- Land area
- 996.5 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.5 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 63%, Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 38%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Prowers County, CO3,810 ft
- Greeley County3,670 ft
- Hamilton County3,450 ft
- Stanton County3,370 ft
- Wichita County3,300 ft
- Kearny County3,170 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas4th highest of 104
- Counties in the United States317th highest of 3,151
All 5 towns in Hamilton County by typical elevation
- Bear Creek Township3,500 ft
- Coolidge3,360 ft
- Coolidge Township3,360 ft
- Syracuse3,240 ft
- Kendall Township, Hamilton County3,160 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.