Olathe, KS Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,110 ft 340 m1,020 ft 310 m980 ft 300 m890 ft 270 m800 ft 245 m750 ft 230 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Olathe sits at about 1,040 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,040 ft 315 m

most residents: 1,000–1,070 ft

Lowest

750 ft 230 m

on the northwest side

Highest

1,110 ft 340 m

on the south side

Average

1,020 ft 310 m

all land inside city limits

Olathe spans about 360 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	1,040 ft315 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side	1,110 ft340 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side	750 ft230 m
Town center USGS map point for Olathe	1,030 ft315 m
Airport (OJC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways	1,096 ft334 m
Average of all land	1,020 ft310 m

Elevation profile, west to east

7.2 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Johnson County, Kansas, United States
Population: 149,035 2024 est.
Land area: 65.2 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
Density: 2,285 per sq mi
Coordinates: 38.8814° N, 94.8191° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Johnson County Exec (OJC) 1,096 ft
ZIP codes 2: 66061 66062

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Spring Hill Township1,070 ft
Spring Hill1,060 ft
Gardner1,050 ft
Gardner Township1,040 ft
Olathe1,040 ft
Lenexa1,010 ft
McCamish Township1,010 ft
Overland Park1,000 ft
Oxford Township980 ft
Lexington Township950 ft
De Soto860 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Kansas1,611th highest of 1,996
Towns in Johnson County6th highest of 25

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Blue Mound, Douglas County1,056 ft
Observation Bluff930 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.