Atchison County, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,220 ft 370 m1,130 ft 345 m1,080 ft 330 m990 ft 305 m900 ft 275 m860 ft 260 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
Atchison County averages about 1,000 ft (305 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 860 ft on the south side to 1,220 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,220 ft 370 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
860 ft 260 m
on the south side
Atchison County spans about 360 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 | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 860 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
25 mi west to east through Tarkio.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Missouri, United States
- Population
- 5,139 2024 est.
- Land area
- 547.3 sq mi + 2.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 9.4 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
- Otoe County, NE1,150 ft
- Page County, IA1,090 ft
- Nemaha County, NE1,060 ft
- Nodaway County1,050 ft
- Fremont County, IA1,020 ft
- Atchison County1,000 ft
- Holt County940 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Missouri22nd highest of 114
- Counties in the United States1,403rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Brickyard Hill1,170 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.