Avondale, MO Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
910 ft 275 m870 ft 265 m850 ft 260 m810 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m750 ft 230 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
Avondale sits at about 840 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
840 ft 255 m
most residents: 790–870 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the south side
Highest
910 ft 275 m
on the east side
Average
830 ft 250 m
all land inside city limits
Avondale 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 | 840 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 910 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 750 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Avondale | 790 ft240 m |
| Airport (MCI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi northwest of the city limits | 1,027 ft313 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Clay County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 434 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 3,215 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1542° N, 94.5469° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Kansas City International (MCI) 1,027 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 64117
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oakwood990 ft
- Oakview980 ft
- Oakwood Park980 ft
- Oaks970 ft
- Gladstone950 ft
- Kansas City930 ft
- Avondale840 ft
- Northmoor820 ft
- Riverside820 ft
- Randolph760 ft
- North Kansas City740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri680th highest of 1,352
- Towns in Clay County11th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Nebo Hill950 ft
- Arsenal Hill910 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.