Pittsburg, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 295 m940 ft 285 m930 ft 285 m910 ft 275 m880 ft 270 m870 ft 265 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pittsburg sits at about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
920 ft 280 m
most residents: 900–940 ft
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the south side
Highest
960 ft 295 m
on the north side
Average
920 ft 280 m
all land inside city limits
Pittsburg spans about 90 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 960 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 870 ft265 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pittsburg | 940 ft290 m |
| Airport (PTS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 946 ft288 m |
| Average of all land | 920 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Crawford County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 20,547 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,531 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.4109° N, 94.7050° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Cow Creek → Spring River → Neosho River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Atkinson Municipal (PTS) 946 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 66762
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ringo990 ft
- Radley980 ft
- South West Township, MO960 ft
- Frontenac950 ft
- Yale940 ft
- Cherokee930 ft
- Opolis930 ft
- Pittsburg920 ft
- Chicopee920 ft
- Cherokee Township, Cherokee County920 ft
- Baker Township910 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,826th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Crawford County19th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Breezy Hill1,030 ft
- Bunker Hill990 ft
- Bell Mound930 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 870 ft at 37.3790° N, 94.7051° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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. All public domain.