Manhattan, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,350 ft 410 m1,260 ft 385 m1,210 ft 370 m1,120 ft 345 m1,030 ft 315 m990 ft 300 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Manhattan sits at about 1,080 ft (330 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,080 ft 330 m
most residents: 1,020–1,180 ft
Lowest
990 ft 300 m
on the east side
Highest
1,350 ft 410 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,100 ft 335 m
all land inside city limits
Manhattan spans about 360 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 | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 990 ft300 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Manhattan | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Airport (MHK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,066 ft325 m |
| Average of all land | 1,100 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Riley and Pottawatomie counties, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 54,700 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,680 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1836° N, 96.5717° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Manhattan Regional (MHK) 1,066 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 66502 66503 66506
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wildcat Township1,280 ft
- Grant Township, Riley County1,190 ft
- Keats1,130 ft
- St. George Township1,120 ft
- Zeandale Township1,080 ft
- Manhattan1,080 ft
- Ashland Township1,070 ft
- Blue Township1,060 ft
- St. George1,060 ft
- Manhattan Township1,040 ft
- Zeandale1,010 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,537th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Riley County18th highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Campbell Hill1,290 ft
- Stagg Hill1,240 ft
- Prospect Hill1,200 ft
- Rock Hill, Riley County1,190 ft
- Longview Hill1,190 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. All public domain.