Preston, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,860 ft 570 m1,850 ft 565 m1,850 ft 565 m1,840 ft 560 m1,830 ft 560 m1,830 ft 555 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
Preston sits at about 1,840 ft (560 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,840 ft 560 m
most residents: 1,830–1,840 ft
Lowest
1,830 ft 555 m
on the south side
Highest
1,860 ft 570 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,840 ft 560 m
all land inside city limits
Preston spans about 30 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 | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,860 ft570 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,830 ft555 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Preston | 1,830 ft560 m |
| Average of all land | 1,840 ft560 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Pratt County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 118 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 271 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7589° N, 98.5531° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Silver Creek → North Fork Ninnescah River → Ninnescah River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 67583
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Iuka1,950 ft
- 71,950 ft
- Union Township, Stafford County1,870 ft
- 61,840 ft
- Preston1,840 ft
- York Township1,800 ft
- Turon1,760 ft
- Miami Township, Reno County1,760 ft
- Grove Township, Reno County1,740 ft
- Cunningham1,710 ft
- Dresden Township1,700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas508th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Pratt Countylowest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Knob, Stafford County1,880 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.