Lincoln County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,840 ft 560 m1,700 ft 515 m1,630 ft 495 m1,490 ft 455 m1,350 ft 410 m1,280 ft 390 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
Lincoln County averages about 1,500 ft (460 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,280 ft on the northeast side to 1,840 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
1,500 ft 460 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,840 ft 560 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
1,280 ft 390 m
on the northeast side
Lincoln County spans about 560 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 | 1,500 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,280 ft390 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
24 mi south to north through Lincoln Center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 2,928 2024 est.
- Land area
- 719.4 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.1 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Russell County1,750 ft
- Osborne County1,740 ft
- Ellsworth County1,670 ft
- Mitchell County1,510 ft
- Lincoln County1,500 ft
- Ottawa County1,340 ft
- Saline County1,320 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas53rd highest of 104
- Counties in the United States847th highest of 3,151
All 13 towns in Lincoln County by typical elevation
- Golden Belt Township1,730 ft
- Battle Creek Township1,530 ft
- Logan Township, Lincoln County1,490 ft
- Franklin Township, Lincoln County1,480 ft
- Pleasant Township, Lincoln County1,460 ft
- Sylvan Grove1,460 ft
- Madison Township, Lincoln County1,440 ft
- Lincoln Center1,400 ft
- Salt Creek Township, Lincoln County1,350 ft
- Colorado Township1,330 ft
- Beverly1,330 ft
- Scott Township, Lincoln County1,320 ft
- Barnard1,320 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.
- 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, 1,280 ft at 39.1501° N, 97.9313° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.