Montezuma, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,790 ft 850 m2,780 ft 850 m2,780 ft 845 m2,770 ft 845 m2,760 ft 840 m2,760 ft 840 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
Montezuma sits at about 2,780 ft (845 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,780 ft 845 m
most residents: 2,770–2,780 ft
Lowest
2,760 ft 840 m
on the south side
Highest
2,790 ft 850 m
on the west side
Average
2,780 ft 845 m
all land inside city limits
Montezuma spans about 30 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 | 2,780 ft845 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 2,790 ft850 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 2,760 ft840 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Montezuma | 2,780 ft845 m |
| Airport (K17) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 2,780 ft847 m |
| Average of all land | 2,780 ft845 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Gray County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 994 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 880 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.5959° N, 100.4432° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Crooked Creek → Cimarron River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Montezuma Municipal (K17) 2,780 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 67867
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lockport Township2,850 ft
- Copeland2,820 ft
- Copeland Township2,820 ft
- Montezuma2,780 ft
- Montezuma Township2,780 ft
- Mertilla Township2,760 ft
- Ensign2,720 ft
- East Hess Township2,720 ft
- Cimarron2,660 ft
- Cimarron Township2,660 ft
- Crooked Creek Township2,590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas139th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Gray County4th highest of 11
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.