McDonald, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,380 ft 1,030 m3,380 ft 1,030 m3,370 ft 1,030 m3,360 ft 1,025 m3,350 ft 1,025 m3,350 ft 1,020 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
McDonald sits at about 3,370 ft (1,025 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,370 ft 1,025 m
most residents: 3,360–3,370 ft
Lowest
3,350 ft 1,020 m
on the east side
Highest
3,370 ft 1,025 m
on the south side
Average
3,360 ft 1,025 m
all land inside city limits
McDonald is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 3,370 ft1,025 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 3,370 ft1,025 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 3,350 ft1,020 m |
| Average of all land | 3,360 ft1,025 m |
Altitude Effects
What 3,370 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.8 °F96.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.5 inHg (89.6 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Rawlins County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 115 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 525 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7862° N, 101.3706° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Beaver Creek → Republican River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 67745
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bird City3,470 ft
- Bird City Township3,470 ft
- Orlando Township3,460 ft
- McDonald3,370 ft
- Rocewood Township3,330 ft
- Mirage Township3,250 ft
- Calhoun Township3,250 ft
- Center Township, Rawlins County3,050 ft
- Driftwood Township3,050 ft
- Atwood Township2,860 ft
- Atwood2,860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas31st highest of 1,996
- Towns in Rawlins Countyhighest of 14
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).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.