Russell, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,870 ft 570 m1,850 ft 565 m1,840 ft 560 m1,820 ft 555 m1,800 ft 550 m1,790 ft 545 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Russell sits at about 1,830 ft (560 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,830 ft 560 m
most residents: 1,820–1,850 ft
Lowest
1,790 ft 545 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,870 ft 570 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,840 ft 560 m
all land inside city limits
Russell 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 | 1,830 ft560 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Russell | 1,830 ft555 m |
| Airport (RSL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,864 ft568 m |
| Average of all land | 1,840 ft560 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Russell County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 4,325 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.9 sq mi
- Density
- 890 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8953° N, 98.8598° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Russell Municipal (RSL) 1,864 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 67665
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gorham1,910 ft
- Big Creek Township, Russell County1,910 ft
- Winterset Township1,880 ft
- Bunker Hill1,860 ft
- Lincoln Township, Russell County1,850 ft
- Center Township, Russell County1,840 ft
- Fairfield Township1,840 ft
- Russell1,830 ft
- Russell Township1,830 ft
- Grant Township, Russell County1,820 ft
- Dorrance1,730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas509th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Russell County8th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Hills2,140 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, 1,790 ft at 38.8718° N, 98.8368° 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.