Tecumseh, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,020 ft 310 m970 ft 295 m950 ft 290 m910 ft 275 m870 ft 265 m840 ft 255 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Tecumseh sits at about 930 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
930 ft 285 m
most residents: 880–950 ft
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the north side
Highest
1,020 ft 310 m
on the southeast side
Average
930 ft 280 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Tecumseh spans about 180 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 | 930 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 840 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tecumseh | 910 ft280 m |
| Airport (TOP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 881 ft269 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Shawnee County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 696 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.6 sq mi
- Density
- 195 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0481° N, 95.5791° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Philip Billard Municipal (TOP) 881 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 66542 66607
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Monmouth Township1,050 ft
- Topeka Township1,020 ft
- Tecumseh Township1,000 ft
- Soldier Township990 ft
- Meriden980 ft
- Lecompton Township980 ft
- Topeka960 ft
- Lecompton940 ft
- Tecumseh930 ft
- Kaw Township930 ft
- Grantville870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,805th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Shawnee County14th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Burnett Mound1,142 ft
- Coon Point1,120 ft
- Twin Mounds, Douglas County1,110 ft
- Nolan Hill1,050 ft
- Hickory Knob1,020 ft
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.
- Tecumseh 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.