Salina, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,420 ft 435 m1,360 ft 415 m1,330 ft 405 m1,280 ft 390 m1,220 ft 370 m1,190 ft 365 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
Salina sits at about 1,230 ft (375 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,230 ft 375 m
most residents: 1,220–1,260 ft
Lowest
1,190 ft 365 m
on the east side
Highest
1,420 ft 435 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,250 ft 380 m
all land inside city limits
Salina spans about 230 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 | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,190 ft365 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Salina | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Airport (SLN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,288 ft393 m |
| Average of all land | 1,250 ft380 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Saline County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 46,109 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,735 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8403° N, 97.6114° 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
- Salina Regional (SLN) 1,288 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 67401
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Washington Township, Saline County1,410 ft
- Walnut Township, Saline County1,320 ft
- Elm Creek Township1,300 ft
- Smolan Township1,280 ft
- Ohio Township, Saline County1,280 ft
- Mentor1,260 ft
- Smoky Hill Township, Saline County1,240 ft
- Greeley Township, Saline County1,240 ft
- Salina1,230 ft
- Cambria Township1,210 ft
- New Cambria1,190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,302nd highest of 1,996
- Towns in Saline County23rd highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Soldier Cap Mound1,580 ft
- Potato Hill, Saline County1,530 ft
- Weston Hill1,500 ft
- Iron Mound1,498 ft
- North Pole Mound1,467 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.