Herndon, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,740 ft 835 m2,720 ft 830 m2,710 ft 825 m2,690 ft 820 m2,670 ft 815 m2,660 ft 810 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Herndon sits at about 2,670 ft (815 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,670 ft 815 m
most residents: 2,670–2,680 ft
Lowest
2,660 ft 810 m
on the south side
Highest
2,740 ft 835 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,670 ft 815 m
all land inside city limits
Herndon 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 | 2,670 ft815 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 2,740 ft835 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 2,660 ft810 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Herndon | 2,670 ft815 m |
| Average of all land | 2,670 ft815 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Rawlins County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 114 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 362 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9097° N, 100.7852° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Beaver Creek → Republican River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 67739
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Union Township, Rawlins County3,000 ft
- Achilles Township2,880 ft
- Logan Township, Decatur County2,800 ft
- Ludell Township2,790 ft
- Ludell2,770 ft
- Sappa Township2,760 ft
- Herl Township2,760 ft
- Finley Township2,730 ft
- Liberty Township, Decatur County2,730 ft
- Herndon2,670 ft
- Beaver Township, Decatur County2,570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas167th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Rawlins Countylowest of 14
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.