Herington, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,500 ft 455 m1,450 ft 440 m1,420 ft 435 m1,370 ft 420 m1,320 ft 405 m1,300 ft 395 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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
Herington sits at about 1,340 ft (410 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,340 ft 410 m
most residents: 1,330–1,370 ft
Lowest
1,300 ft 395 m
near the middle
Highest
1,500 ft 455 m
on the east side
Average
1,410 ft 430 m
all land inside city limits
Herington spans about 200 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 | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Herington | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Airport (HRU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,481 ft451 m |
| Average of all land | 1,410 ft430 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dickinson County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 2,116 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.9 sq mi
- Density
- 434 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6711° N, 96.9425° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Lyon Creek → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Herington Regional (HRU) 1,481 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 67449
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lost Springs1,490 ft
- 7, Morris County1,460 ft
- Burdick1,450 ft
- Ramona1,420 ft
- Latimer1,410 ft
- Hope1,390 ft
- Hope Township1,390 ft
- Lyon Township, Dickinson County1,370 ft
- Herington1,340 ft
- Union Township, Dickinson County1,310 ft
- Woodbine1,260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,089th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Dickinson County6th highest of 36
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.