Shawnee, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,090 ft 330 m1,000 ft 305 m960 ft 290 m870 ft 265 m780 ft 240 m740 ft 225 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
Shawnee sits at about 970 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
970 ft 295 m
most residents: 830–1,050 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the west side
Highest
1,090 ft 330 m
near the middle
Average
920 ft 280 m
all land inside city limits
Shawnee spans about 350 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 | 970 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shawnee | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Airport (MKC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.1 mi northeast of the city limits | 757 ft231 m |
| Average of all land | 920 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Johnson County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 69,724 2024 est.
- Land area
- 42.0 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,661 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0417° N, 94.7202° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Kansas City Downtown/Wheeler Field (MKC) 757 ft
- ZIP codes 7
- 66203 66214 66216 66217 66218 66226 66227
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Overland Park1,000 ft
- Mission1,000 ft
- Merriam990 ft
- Prairie Village980 ft
- Roeland Park980 ft
- Shawnee970 ft
- Westwood970 ft
- Mission Hills950 ft
- Fairway940 ft
- Lake Quivira940 ft
- Edwardsville780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,735th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Johnson County16th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Observation Bluff930 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. All public domain.