Seward, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,940 ft 590 m1,930 ft 590 m1,930 ft 590 m1,920 ft 585 m1,910 ft 585 m1,910 ft 580 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
Seward sits at about 1,910 ft (585 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside city limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,910 ft 585 m
few residents
Lowest
1,910 ft 580 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,920 ft 585 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,910 ft 585 m
all land inside city limits
Seward is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 10 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,910 ft585 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,920 ft585 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,910 ft580 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Seward | 1,910 ft585 m |
| Average of all land | 1,910 ft585 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Stafford County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 41 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 160 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.1778° N, 98.7948° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 67576
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Logan Township, Pawnee County1,990 ft
- Radium1,950 ft
- Douglas Township1,940 ft
- Lincoln Township, Stafford County1,940 ft
- Seward1,910 ft
- South Seward Township1,900 ft
- North Seward Township1,890 ft
- Hayes Township, Stafford County1,870 ft
- Hudson1,870 ft
- South Bend Township1,860 ft
- Byron Township1,850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas441st highest of 1,996
- Towns in Stafford County11th highest of 27
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the city limits; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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, 1,910 ft at 38.1763° N, 98.7979° 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.