Amsterdam, MO Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,010 ft 305 m970 ft 295 m950 ft 290 m910 ft 275 m870 ft 265 m850 ft 260 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Amsterdam sits at about 880 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
880 ft 270 m
most residents: 860–940 ft
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,010 ft 305 m
on the west side
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside city limits
Amsterdam spans about 160 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 | 880 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 850 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Amsterdam | 890 ft270 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Bates County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 223 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 391 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3497° N, 94.5891° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Marais des Cygnes River → Osage River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 64723
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sugar Creek Township, KS1,000 ft
- West Boone Township980 ft
- Linn Valley, KS930 ft
- Merwin910 ft
- Amsterdam880 ft
- West Point Township880 ft
- Elkhart Township870 ft
- Lincoln Township, KS860 ft
- Amoret850 ft
- Homer Township840 ft
- Valley Township, Linn County, KS830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri547th highest of 1,352
- Towns in Bates County7th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Walley Mound970 ft
- Spy Mound970 ft
- Osburn Mound970 ft
- Summers Mound950 ft
- Graves Mound910 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.