Lansing, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,000 ft 305 m930 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m840 ft 255 m780 ft 240 m750 ft 230 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
Lansing sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 830–900 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the east side
Highest
1,000 ft 305 m
on the west side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Lansing spans about 250 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 750 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lansing | 850 ft260 m |
| Airport (MCI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.0 mi east of the city limits | 1,027 ft313 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 11,316 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.5 sq mi
- Density
- 903 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2486° N, 94.9002° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Kansas City International (MCI) 1,027 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 66043 66048
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- High Prairie Township990 ft
- Basehor950 ft
- Fairmount Township950 ft
- Weatherby Lake, MO940 ft
- Delaware Township, Leavenworth County900 ft
- Stranger Township900 ft
- Platte City, MO890 ft
- Leavenworth860 ft
- Lansing850 ft
- Farley, MO850 ft
- Tracy, MO810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,945th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Leavenworth County15th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Knob, Leavenworth County1,105 ft
- Hancock Hill1,090 ft
- Wagner Point1,080 ft
- Government Hill1,070 ft
- Sentinel Hill1,050 ft
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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.