Linn County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,120 ft 340 m1,030 ft 315 m980 ft 300 m890 ft 270 m800 ft 240 m750 ft 230 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
Linn County averages about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 750 ft on the east side to 1,120 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
920 ft 280 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the east side
Linn County spans about 370 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 750 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
24 mi south to north through Lincoln Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 9,841 2024 est.
- Land area
- 594.1 sq mi + 12.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 17 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Anderson County1,040 ft
- Miami County970 ft
- Linn County920 ft
- Bourbon County920 ft
- Bates County, MO840 ft
- Vernon County, MO830 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas99th highest of 104
- Counties in the United States1,552nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Graveyard Mound950 ft
All 19 towns in Linn County by typical elevation
- Blue Mound1,040 ft
- Blue Mound Township1,040 ft
- Parker1,000 ft
- Liberty Township990 ft
- Centerville Township, Linn County950 ft
- Paris Township940 ft
- Linn Valley930 ft
- Scott Township, Linn County920 ft
- Centerville910 ft
- Stanton Township, Linn County890 ft
- Mound City Township890 ft
- Prescott890 ft
- Sheridan Township, Linn County880 ft
- Mound City870 ft
- Potosi Township860 ft
- Lincoln Township860 ft
- Pleasanton860 ft
- La Cygne830 ft
- Valley Township, Linn County830 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.
- 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.