Sedan, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
970 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m910 ft 280 m870 ft 265 m830 ft 250 m800 ft 245 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
Sedan sits at about 860 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 265 m
most residents: 830–890 ft
Lowest
800 ft 245 m
on the southwest side
Highest
970 ft 295 m
on the north side
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside city limits
Sedan spans about 170 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 | 860 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 970 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 800 ft245 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sedan | 860 ft260 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Chautauqua County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 985 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,198 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1267° N, 96.1869° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Little Caney River → Caney River → Verdigris River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 67361
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Center Township, Chautauqua County1,070 ft
- Lafayette Township980 ft
- Chautauqua920 ft
- Belleville Township900 ft
- Sedan860 ft
- Peru820 ft
- Little Caney Township820 ft
- Whippoorwill, OK790 ft
- Elgin790 ft
- Niotaze780 ft
- Havana760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,930th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Chautauqua County6th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Round Mound, Montgomery County1,010 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, 800 ft at 37.1232° N, 96.1840° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.