Independence, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,060 ft 320 m970 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m840 ft 255 m760 ft 230 m720 ft 220 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Independence sits at about 910 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 275 m
most residents: 820–1,000 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,060 ft 320 m
on the south side
Average
860 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Independence spans about 340 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 | 910 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,060 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Independence | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
14 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jackson County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 121,629 2024 est.
- Land area
- 78.0 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,560 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0911° N, 94.4155° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 9
- 64015 64016 64050 64052 64053 64054 64055 64056 64057
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Raytown970 ft
- Independence910 ft
- Blue Summit870 ft
- Sugar Creek860 ft
- Lake Tapawingo850 ft
- Avondale840 ft
- Claycomo800 ft
- Randolph760 ft
- North Kansas City740 ft
- Birmingham740 ft
- River Bend730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri471st highest of 1,352
- Towns in Jackson County10th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Minter Hill970 ft
- Nebo Hill950 ft
- Monkey Mountain950 ft
- Bone Hill940 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 720 ft at 39.1243° N, 94.3071° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.