Wallace County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,040 ft 1,230 m3,820 ft 1,165 m3,700 ft 1,130 m3,480 ft 1,060 m3,260 ft 990 m3,140 ft 960 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Wallace County averages about 3,620 ft (1,105 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,140 ft on the east side to 4,040 ft on Mount Sunflower.
Average elevation
3,620 ft 1,105 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,040 ft 1,230 m
on Mount Sunflower
Lowest
3,140 ft 960 m
on the east side
Wallace County spans about 900 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 3,620 ft1,105 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Sunflower (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 4,040 ft1,230 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 3,140 ft960 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
30 mi west to east through Sharon Springs Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 1,472 2024 est.
- Land area
- 913.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.6 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Kit Carson County, CO4,420 ft
- Cheyenne County, CO4,350 ft
- Greeley County3,670 ft
- Sherman County3,660 ft
- Wallace County3,620 ft
- Wichita County3,300 ft
- Logan County3,100 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas2nd highest of 104
- Counties in the United States300th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Sunflower4,040 ft
- Rock Hill, Wallace County3,900 ft
- Red Hills3,580 ft
- Motti Hill3,480 ft
All 7 towns in Wallace County by typical elevation
- Weskan3,840 ft
- Weskan Township3,840 ft
- Harrison Township, Wallace County3,500 ft
- Sharon Springs Township3,460 ft
- Sharon Springs3,460 ft
- Wallace Township3,350 ft
- Wallace3,310 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.