Melvern, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m1,030 ft 315 m1,020 ft 310 m1,000 ft 305 m980 ft 300 m970 ft 295 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
Melvern sits at about 1,020 ft (310 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,020 ft 310 m
most residents: 1,000–1,030 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,010 ft 310 m
all land inside city limits
Melvern spans about 80 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 | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Melvern | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Average of all land | 1,010 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Osage County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 345 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 969 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.5070° N, 95.6378° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Marais des Cygnes River → Osage River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 66510
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Olivet1,150 ft
- Olivet Township1,130 ft
- Rock Creek Township, Coffey County1,120 ft
- Waverly1,120 ft
- Lincoln Township, Osage County1,070 ft
- Valley Brook Township1,040 ft
- Lyndon1,030 ft
- Melvern Township1,020 ft
- Melvern1,020 ft
- Agency Township950 ft
- Quenemo940 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,651st highest of 1,996
- Towns in Osage County24th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bebo Hill1,230 ft
- Chippewa Hills1,150 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.