Ulysses, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,080 ft 935 m3,050 ft 930 m3,030 ft 925 m3,010 ft 915 m2,980 ft 910 m2,960 ft 905 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ulysses sits at about 3,050 ft (930 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,050 ft 930 m
most residents: 3,040–3,070 ft
Lowest
2,960 ft 905 m
on the southeast side
Highest
3,080 ft 935 m
on the northwest side
Average
3,040 ft 925 m
all land inside city limits
Ulysses spans about 120 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 | 3,050 ft930 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 3,080 ft935 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 2,960 ft905 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ulysses | 3,050 ft930 m |
| Airport (ULS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.9 mi northwest of the city limits | 3,071 ft936 m |
| Average of all land | 3,040 ft925 m |
Altitude Effects
What 3,050 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.3 °F96.9 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.8 inHg (90.6 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.7% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+6% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Grant County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 5,582 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,729 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.5814° N, 101.3552° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- North Fork Cimarron River → Cimarron River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Ulysses (ULS) 3,071 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 67880
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Johnson City3,340 ft
- Hartland Township3,250 ft
- Big Bow3,170 ft
- Kendall Township3,100 ft
- Ulysses3,050 ft
- Moscow3,050 ft
- Lakin Township3,010 ft
- Lakin3,010 ft
- Southside Township3,000 ft
- Dudley Township2,960 ft
- Satanta2,960 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas78th highest of 1,996
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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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. All public domain.