New Salem, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,280 ft 390 m1,270 ft 385 m1,260 ft 385 m1,250 ft 380 m1,240 ft 380 m1,230 ft 375 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
New Salem sits at about 1,250 ft (380 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,250 ft 380 m
most residents: 1,250–1,260 ft
Lowest
1,230 ft 375 m
on the east side
Highest
1,280 ft 390 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,260 ft 385 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
New Salem spans about 50 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 | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Town center USGS map point for New Salem | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Average of all land | 1,260 ft385 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Cowley County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 58 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 158 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3106° N, 96.8953° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Walnut River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 67156
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Burden1,390 ft
- Silver Creek Township1,390 ft
- Sheridan Township, Cowley County1,320 ft
- Richland Township, Cowley County1,300 ft
- Tisdale Township1,280 ft
- Salem Township, Cowley County1,260 ft
- New Salem1,250 ft
- Liberty Township, Cowley County1,250 ft
- Fairview Township, Cowley County1,210 ft
- Walnut Township, Cowley County1,190 ft
- Winfield1,140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,272nd highest of 1,996
- Towns in Cowley County17th highest of 36
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- New Salem is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.