Shawnee County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,290 ft 395 m1,180 ft 360 m1,120 ft 340 m1,010 ft 305 m890 ft 270 m840 ft 255 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
Shawnee County averages about 1,010 ft (310 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 840 ft on the east side to 1,290 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
1,010 ft 310 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,290 ft 395 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the east side
Shawnee County spans about 450 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 | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
24 mi south to north through Topeka.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 177,942 2024 est.
- Land area
- 544.0 sq mi + 11.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 327 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Wabaunsee County1,250 ft
- Pottawatomie County1,220 ft
- Jackson County1,120 ft
- Osage County1,090 ft
- Jefferson County1,020 ft
- Shawnee County1,010 ft
- Douglas County970 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas88th highest of 104
- Counties in the United States1,379th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Burnett Mound1,142 ft
- Peanaz Hill1,030 ft
- Hickory Knob1,020 ft
All 19 towns in Shawnee County by typical elevation
- Auburn Township1,090 ft
- Auburn1,060 ft
- Mission Township1,060 ft
- Monmouth Township1,050 ft
- Williamsport Township1,040 ft
- Dover Township1,030 ft
- Topeka Township1,020 ft
- Grove Township1,010 ft
- Wakarusa1,000 ft
- Tecumseh Township1,000 ft
- Soldier Township990 ft
- Menoken Township960 ft
- Topeka960 ft
- Tecumseh930 ft
- Rossville Township930 ft
- Rossville930 ft
- Willard930 ft
- Silver Lake Township910 ft
- Silver Lake910 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.