Wells, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,430 ft 435 m1,400 ft 425 m1,380 ft 420 m1,350 ft 410 m1,320 ft 405 m1,310 ft 400 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Wells sits at about 1,370 ft (415 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,370 ft 415 m
few residents
Lowest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,430 ft 435 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,370 ft 415 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Wells 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,370 ft415 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wells | 1,370 ft415 m |
| Average of all land | 1,370 ft415 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Ottawa County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 45 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Density
- 32 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1389° N, 97.5509° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Solomon River → Smoky Hill River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 67467
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sherman Township, Ottawa County1,420 ft
- Durham Township1,400 ft
- Grant Township, Ottawa County1,380 ft
- Wells1,370 ft
- Richland Township, Ottawa County1,340 ft
- Ottawa Township, Ottawa County1,330 ft
- Minneapolis1,300 ft
- Blaine Township1,290 ft
- Concord Township1,270 ft
- Bennington Township1,240 ft
- Bennington1,240 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,036th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Ottawa County7th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Pole Mound1,467 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Wells 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.