Osage County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,200 ft 365 m1,150 ft 350 m1,050 ft 320 m950 ft 290 m900 ft 275 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Osage County averages about 1,090 ft (335 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 900 ft on the northeast side to 1,310 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
1,090 ft 335 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
900 ft 275 m
on the northeast side
Osage County spans about 410 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 | 1,090 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Osage City.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 15,737 2024 est.
- Land area
- 705.5 sq mi + 14.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 22 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Wabaunsee County1,250 ft
- Lyon County1,210 ft
- Coffey County1,100 ft
- Osage County1,090 ft
- Shawnee County1,010 ft
- Franklin County990 ft
- Douglas County970 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas81st highest of 104
- Counties in the United States1,256th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Stenger Hill1,230 ft
- Bebo Hill1,230 ft
- Elkhorn Knob1,200 ft
All 26 towns in Osage County by typical elevation
- Overbrook1,200 ft
- Elk Township1,190 ft
- Olivet1,150 ft
- Grant Township, Osage County1,140 ft
- Olivet Township1,130 ft
- Barclay Township1,120 ft
- Scranton1,120 ft
- Scranton Township1,120 ft
- Burlingame Township1,110 ft
- Ridgeway Township1,110 ft
- Carbondale1,100 ft
- Arvonia Township1,100 ft
- Burlingame1,090 ft
- Osage City1,080 ft
- Superior Township, Osage County1,080 ft
- Lincoln Township, Osage County1,070 ft
- Fairfax Township1,070 ft
- Dragoon Township1,060 ft
- Junction Township1,060 ft
- Vassar1,050 ft
- Valley Brook Township1,040 ft
- Lyndon1,030 ft
- Melvern Township1,020 ft
- Melvern1,020 ft
- Agency Township950 ft
- Quenemo940 ft
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.