Wilson County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,140 ft 345 m1,040 ft 320 m1,000 ft 305 m900 ft 275 m800 ft 245 m760 ft 230 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
Wilson County averages about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 760 ft on the south side to 1,140 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
920 ft 280 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,140 ft 345 m
on the west side
Lowest
760 ft 230 m
on the south side
Wilson County spans about 380 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 760 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Neodesha.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 8,398 2024 est.
- Land area
- 570.4 sq mi + 4.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 15 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Greenwood County1,180 ft
- Elk County1,120 ft
- Woodson County1,040 ft
- Neosho County950 ft
- Wilson County920 ft
- Montgomery County830 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas98th highest of 104
- Counties in the United States1,551st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Round Top1,060 ft
- West Mound1,050 ft
- Three Mounds1,040 ft
- South Mound1,040 ft
- Little Bear Mound990 ft
All 19 towns in Wilson County by typical elevation
- Verdigris Township1,030 ft
- Pleasant Valley Township, Wilson County1,000 ft
- Colfax Township980 ft
- Buffalo940 ft
- Fall River Township920 ft
- Lafontaine920 ft
- Center Township, Wilson County910 ft
- Chetopa Township, Wilson County900 ft
- Fredonia900 ft
- New Albany900 ft
- Benedict890 ft
- Newark Township890 ft
- Coyville890 ft
- Prairie Township, Wilson County880 ft
- Guilford Township880 ft
- Cedar Township830 ft
- Altoona830 ft
- Neodesha Township820 ft
- Neodesha810 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. 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.