Scott County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,180 ft 970 m3,050 ft 930 m2,990 ft 915 m2,870 ft 875 m2,750 ft 840 m2,690 ft 820 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Scott County averages about 2,990 ft (915 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,690 ft on the northeast side to 3,180 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
2,990 ft 915 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,180 ft 970 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
2,690 ft 820 m
on the northeast side
Scott County spans about 490 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 2,990 ft915 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 3,180 ft970 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 2,690 ft820 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Scott City.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 4,914 2024 est.
- Land area
- 717.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 6.8 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 75%, Dry Lake basin (does not reach the sea) 17%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Wichita County3,300 ft
- Kearny County3,170 ft
- Logan County3,100 ft
- Scott County2,990 ft
- Finney County2,840 ft
- Lane County2,760 ft
- Gove County2,680 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas14th highest of 104
- Counties in the United States385th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Pawnee Mound3,000 ft
All 4 towns in Scott County by typical elevation
- Isbel Township3,120 ft
- Beaver Township3,070 ft
- Scott City2,970 ft
- Shallow Water2,950 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.