Medicine Lodge, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,560 ft 475 m1,530 ft 465 m1,520 ft 465 m1,490 ft 455 m1,470 ft 445 m1,450 ft 445 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
Medicine Lodge sits at about 1,490 ft (455 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,490 ft 455 m
most residents: 1,480–1,520 ft
Lowest
1,450 ft 445 m
on the west side
Highest
1,560 ft 475 m
on the north side
Average
1,490 ft 455 m
all land inside city limits
Medicine Lodge spans about 110 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 | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,450 ft445 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Medicine Lodge | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Airport (K51) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi southeast of the city limits | 1,549 ft472 m |
| Average of all land | 1,490 ft455 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Barber County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 1,708 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,426 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2811° N, 98.5804° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Medicine Lodge River → Salt Fork Arkansas River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Medicine Lodge (K51) 1,549 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 67104
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Isabel1,850 ft
- Valley Township, Barber County1,840 ft
- Elm Mills Township1,750 ft
- Liberty Township, Kingman County1,740 ft
- Eagle Township, Barber County1,720 ft
- Mingona Township1,550 ft
- Medicine Lodge Township1,500 ft
- Medicine Lodge1,490 ft
- Sharon Township1,460 ft
- Sharon1,460 ft
- Moore Township1,440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas806th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Barber County15th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gypsum Hills1,860 ft
- Twin Peaks1,770 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.