Wakarusa, KS Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,060 ft 325 m1,030 ft 315 m1,020 ft 310 m990 ft 300 m950 ft 290 m940 ft 285 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Wakarusa sits at about 1,000 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,000 ft 305 m

most residents: 960–1,040 ft

Lowest

940 ft 285 m

on the east side

Highest

1,060 ft 325 m

on the north side

Average

990 ft 305 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Wakarusa 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	1,000 ft305 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side	1,060 ft325 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side	940 ft285 m
Town center USGS map point for Wakarusa	960 ft290 m
Airport (FOE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.9 mi north of the CDP boundary	1,078 ft329 m
Average of all land	990 ft305 m

Elevation profile, south to north

3.0 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Shawnee County, Kansas, United States
Population: 242 2020 Census
Land area: 5.0 sq mi
Density: 49 per sq mi
Coordinates: 38.8858° N, 95.6958° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Wakarusa River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Topeka Regional (FOE) 1,078 ft
ZIP codes 1: 66546

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Scranton1,120 ft
Scranton Township1,120 ft
Ridgeway Township1,110 ft
Carbondale1,100 ft
Auburn Township1,090 ft
Auburn1,060 ft
Mission Township1,060 ft
Monmouth Township1,050 ft
Williamsport Township1,040 ft
Topeka Township1,020 ft
Wakarusa1,000 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Kansas1,666th highest of 1,996
Towns in Shawnee County9th highest of 19

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Stenger Hill1,230 ft
Elkhorn Knob1,200 ft
Burnett Mound1,142 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 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).
Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 930 ft at 38.8907° N, 95.6863° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
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.
Wakarusa 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.