Harper County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,750 ft 535 m1,600 ft 490 m1,530 ft 465 m1,380 ft 420 m1,230 ft 375 m1,160 ft 355 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
Harper County averages about 1,370 ft (420 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,160 ft on the southeast side to 1,750 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
1,370 ft 420 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,750 ft 535 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
1,160 ft 355 m
on the southeast side
Harper County spans about 590 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 | 1,370 ft420 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,750 ft535 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,160 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
27 mi south to north through Anthony.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 5,413 2024 est.
- Land area
- 801.3 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 6.8 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Central Lowland 68%, Great Plains 32%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Barber County1,640 ft
- Kingman County1,580 ft
- Harper County1,370 ft
- Alfalfa County, OK1,270 ft
- Sumner County1,230 ft
- Grant County, OK1,120 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas61st highest of 104
- Counties in the United States937th highest of 3,151
All 12 towns in Harper County by typical elevation
- 11,460 ft
- Attica1,460 ft
- 6, Harper County1,430 ft
- Harper1,420 ft
- 5, Harper County1,380 ft
- Anthony1,350 ft
- Danville1,340 ft
- 3, Harper County1,330 ft
- 2, Harper County1,290 ft
- Waldron1,250 ft
- 41,250 ft
- Bluff City1,220 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.