Williamstown, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
860 ft 265 m850 ft 260 m850 ft 260 m840 ft 255 m830 ft 255 m830 ft 255 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
Williamstown sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
830 ft 255 m
on the west side
Highest
860 ft 260 m
on the northwest side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Williamstown spans about 30 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 860 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 830 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Williamstown | 850 ft260 m |
| Airport (LWC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.9 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 833 ft254 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Jefferson County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 96 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 821 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0628° N, 95.3328° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lawrence Regional (LWC) 833 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 66073
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sarcoxie Township1,040 ft
- Kanwaka Township1,030 ft
- Fairview Township1,020 ft
- Rural Township990 ft
- Lecompton Township980 ft
- Lecompton940 ft
- Lawrence890 ft
- Kentucky Township850 ft
- Williamstown850 ft
- Perry850 ft
- Grant Township, Douglas County830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas1,946th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Jefferson County21st highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Coon Point1,120 ft
- Blue Mound, Douglas County1,056 ft
- Nolan Hill1,050 ft
- Shank Hill1,000 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).
- 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.
- Williamstown 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.