Sherman County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,010 ft 1,220 m3,830 ft 1,165 m3,740 ft 1,140 m3,550 ft 1,085 m3,370 ft 1,030 m3,280 ft 1,000 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
Sherman County averages about 3,660 ft (1,115 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,280 ft on the northeast side to 4,010 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
3,660 ft 1,115 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,010 ft 1,220 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
3,280 ft 1,000 m
on the northeast side
Sherman County spans about 730 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 | 3,660 ft1,115 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 4,010 ft1,220 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 3,280 ft1,000 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
35 mi west to east through Goodland.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 5,796 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,056.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.5 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Kit Carson County, CO4,420 ft
- Sherman County3,660 ft
- Wallace County3,620 ft
- Cheyenne County3,460 ft
- Thomas County3,180 ft
- Logan County3,100 ft
- Rawlins County3,070 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansashighest of 104
- Counties in the United States294th highest of 3,151
All 11 towns in Sherman County by typical elevation
- Kanorado3,910 ft
- Stateline Township3,910 ft
- McPherson Township, Sherman County3,880 ft
- Grant Township, Sherman County3,830 ft
- Logan Township, Sherman County3,700 ft
- Itasca Township3,700 ft
- Goodland3,690 ft
- Voltaire Township3,580 ft
- Edson3,570 ft
- Washington Township, Sherman County3,570 ft
- Llanos Township3,440 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.