Somerset, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 295 m940 ft 285 m930 ft 285 m910 ft 275 m880 ft 270 m870 ft 265 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Somerset sits at about 940 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 285 m
most residents: 920–960 ft
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the west side
Highest
960 ft 295 m
on the north side
Average
920 ft 280 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Somerset spans about 90 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 | 940 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 960 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 870 ft265 m |
| Airport (K81) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.4 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 943 ft287 m |
| Average of all land | 920 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the middle of Somerset.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Miami County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 90 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 204 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6021° N, 94.7730° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Marais des Cygnes River → Osage River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Miami County (K81) 943 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 66071
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bucyrus1,100 ft
- Louisburg1,090 ft
- Wea Township1,070 ft
- Middle Creek Township1,070 ft
- Ten Mile Township1,040 ft
- Marysville Township1,000 ft
- Somerset940 ft
- Valley Township930 ft
- Paola Township910 ft
- Paola910 ft
- Hillsdale900 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,796th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Miami County12th highest of 20
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Somerset is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.