Ness County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

2,690 ft 820 m2,530 ft 770 m2,460 ft 750 m2,300 ft 700 m2,140 ft 655 m2,070 ft 630 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Ness County averages about 2,370 ft (720 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,070 ft on the east side to 2,690 ft on the southwest side.

Average elevation

2,370 ft 720 m

all land inside the county

Highest

2,690 ft 820 m

on the southwest side

Lowest

2,070 ft 630 m

on the east side

Ness County spans about 620 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	2,370 ft720 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side	2,690 ft820 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side	2,070 ft630 m

Elevation profile, west to east

36 mi west to east through Center Township, Ness County.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Kansas, United States
Population: 2,617 2024 est.
Land area: 1,074.7 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
Density: 2.4 per sq mi
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Great Plains
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Finney County2,840 ft
Lane County2,760 ft
Gove County2,680 ft
Hodgeman County2,380 ft
Ness County2,370 ft
Trego County2,340 ft
Pawnee County2,080 ft
Rush County2,080 ft
Ellis County2,040 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Kansas26th highest of 104
Counties in the United States515th highest of 3,151

All 15 towns in Ness County by typical elevation

How we measure

Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.