Hugoton, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,120 ft 950 m3,110 ft 950 m3,110 ft 945 m3,100 ft 945 m3,090 ft 940 m3,090 ft 940 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
Hugoton sits at about 3,110 ft (945 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,110 ft 945 m
most residents: 3,100–3,110 ft
Lowest
3,090 ft 940 m
on the east side
Highest
3,120 ft 950 m
on the southwest side
Average
3,110 ft 945 m
all land inside city limits
Hugoton spans about 30 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 | 3,110 ft945 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 3,120 ft950 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 3,090 ft940 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hugoton | 3,110 ft950 m |
| Airport (HQG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi southwest of the city limits | 3,134 ft955 m |
| Average of all land | 3,110 ft945 m |
Altitude Effects
What 3,110 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.2 °F96.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.7 inHg (90.5 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.7% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+6% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Stevens County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 3,583 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,710 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1753° N, 101.3496° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Hugoton Municipal (HQG) 3,134 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 67951
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Richfield3,390 ft
- Richfield Township3,350 ft
- Rolla3,320 ft
- Hough, OK3,280 ft
- Hugoton3,110 ft
- Moscow3,050 ft
- Hooker, OK2,990 ft
- Satanta2,960 ft
- Tyrone, OK2,920 ft
- Liberal Township2,870 ft
- Liberal2,850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas68th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Stevens Countyhighest of 2
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, 3,080 ft at 37.1743° N, 101.3246° 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.