Plains, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,790 ft 850 m2,780 ft 850 m2,780 ft 845 m2,770 ft 845 m2,760 ft 840 m2,760 ft 840 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Plains sits at about 2,760 ft (840 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,760 ft 840 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
2,760 ft 840 m
on the south side
Highest
2,770 ft 845 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,760 ft 840 m
all land inside city limits
Plains is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 10 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 2,760 ft840 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 2,770 ft845 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 2,760 ft840 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Plains | 2,760 ft840 m |
| Average of all land | 2,760 ft840 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Meade County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 1,006 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,007 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2603° N, 100.5927° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Crooked Creek → Cimarron River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 67869
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Seward Township2,840 ft
- Copeland Township2,820 ft
- Kismet2,780 ft
- Fargo Township2,770 ft
- Plains2,760 ft
- Mertilla Township2,760 ft
- West Plains Township2,760 ft
- Cimarron Township, Meade County2,660 ft
- Crooked Creek Township2,590 ft
- Meade2,490 ft
- Meade Center Township2,490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas146th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Meade Countyhighest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Hills2,740 ft
- Table Mesa2,650 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, 2,750 ft at 37.2626° N, 100.5863° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.