Pierceville, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,850 ft 870 m2,820 ft 860 m2,810 ft 855 m2,780 ft 845 m2,750 ft 840 m2,730 ft 835 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pierceville sits at about 2,750 ft (840 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,750 ft 840 m
most residents: 2,740–2,760 ft
Lowest
2,730 ft 835 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,850 ft 870 m
on the north side
Average
2,770 ft 845 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Pierceville spans about 120 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 | 2,750 ft840 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 2,850 ft870 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 2,730 ft835 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pierceville | 2,750 ft840 m |
| Airport (GCK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.0 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 2,891 ft881 m |
| Average of all land | 2,770 ft845 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Finney County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 98 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 48 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.8784° N, 100.6768° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Garden City Regional (GCK) 2,891 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 67846 67868
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pleasant Valley Township, Finney County2,910 ft
- Ivanhoe Township2,880 ft
- Sherlock Township2,880 ft
- Holcomb2,880 ft
- Garden City Township2,850 ft
- Garden City2,840 ft
- Pierceville Township2,840 ft
- Logan Township, Gray County2,800 ft
- Pierceville2,750 ft
- Ingalls Township2,730 ft
- Ingalls2,690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas151st highest of 1,996
- Towns in Finney County9th highest of 10
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.
- Pierceville 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.