Portis, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,600 ft 485 m1,580 ft 480 m1,570 ft 475 m1,550 ft 470 m1,530 ft 465 m1,520 ft 460 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
Portis sits at about 1,540 ft (470 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,540 ft 470 m
most residents: 1,530–1,550 ft
Lowest
1,520 ft 460 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,600 ft 485 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,550 ft 470 m
all land inside city limits
Portis spans about 80 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 | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,600 ft485 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,520 ft460 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Portis | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Airport (K75) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.6 mi south of the city limits | 1,547 ft472 m |
| Average of all land | 1,550 ft470 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Osborne County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 84 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 322 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5636° N, 98.6934° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- North Fork Solomon River → Solomon River → Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Osborne Municipal (K75) 1,547 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 67474
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hawkeye Township1,770 ft
- Garfield Township, Smith County1,700 ft
- Lawrence Township, Osborne County1,700 ft
- Lincoln Township, Smith County1,640 ft
- Harlan Township1,590 ft
- Osborne1,550 ft
- Penn Township1,540 ft
- Portis1,540 ft
- Bethany Township1,540 ft
- Ross Township1,480 ft
- Downs1,480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas747th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Osborne County24th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- South Hill1,800 ft
- North Hill1,780 ft
- Medicine Peak1,760 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. All public domain.