Topeka, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 355 m1,090 ft 330 m1,050 ft 320 m970 ft 295 m890 ft 270 m850 ft 260 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
Topeka sits at about 960 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
960 ft 295 m
most residents: 890–1,020 ft
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the southwest side
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside city limits
Topeka spans about 320 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 | 960 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 850 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Topeka | 950 ft290 m |
| Airport (TOP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 881 ft269 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
13 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Shawnee County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 125,467 2024 est.
- Land area
- 61.9 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,027 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0483° N, 95.6780° 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 20
- 66409 66546 66603 66604 66605 66606 66607 66608 66609 66610 66611 66612 66614 66615 66616 66617 66618 66619 66621 66622
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mission Township1,060 ft
- Monmouth Township1,050 ft
- Williamsport Township1,040 ft
- Topeka Township1,020 ft
- Tecumseh Township1,000 ft
- Soldier Township990 ft
- Menoken Township960 ft
- Topeka960 ft
- Tecumseh930 ft
- Kaw Township930 ft
- Grantville870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,761st highest of 1,996
- Towns in Shawnee County13th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stenger Hill1,230 ft
- Burnett Mound1,142 ft
- Coon Point1,120 ft
- Twin Mounds, Douglas County1,110 ft
- Hickory Knob1,020 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.